Allegro Vivo

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Allegro Vivo is a chamber music festival that has been held annually since 1979 from the beginning of August to mid-September in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria. The festival includes around 65 concerts at 30 venues, including architecturally and historically significant monasteries , castles and palaces in the region. The Allegro Vivo Summer Academy offers 70 master classes, youth development courses and courses for children and parents, which are attended by around 500 music students from 40 nations.

Summer academy

Around 500 music students from all over the world study with artists and lecturers from international music universities and conservatories. The young musicians have the opportunity to give concerts themselves. Special achievements are recognized in the award-winners' concerts. The course participants attend concerts in the library of Altenburg Abbey .

history

The Allegro Vivo Chamber Music Festival was founded in 1979 by violinist and conductor Bijan Khadem-Missagh , who also directed it until 2016. Beginning with the next season, his son Vahid Khadem-Missagh took over the artistic direction. In 2019 the festival was awarded the honorary prize as part of the Lower Austria Tourism Prize. In 2019 Allegro Vivo also received the Maecenas Austria Special Prize in the “Art and Culture” category.

With the combination of concerts, master classes, youth development and courses for children and parents, Allegro Vivo soon developed into an international institution.

Guiding themes

  • 1990: "Contrasts - apparent opposites as a necessary addition"
  • 1991: "Impulse - the mutual relationship of composers in the context of their time"
  • 1992: "Aspects - a better understanding of the world through the aspects in music"
  • 1993: "Wide Horizons"
  • 1994: "Games - experience music in a playful way"
  • 1995: "Relations - Relationships in Music"
  • 1996: "In the present past - to keep the fire and not to worship the ashes"
  • 1997: "Art of Encounter - Encounter of the Arts"
  • 1998: "Impulse"
  • 1999: "Metamorphoses - monologue in dialogue, competition in cooperation, isolation in community and transforming wars into peace"
  • 2000: "Pace è bene - Peace and a good future for our world"
  • 2001: "Perspectives"
  • 2002: "Rhythms and Cycles"
  • 2003: "Das Fest" (25th Festival)
  • 2004: "Impressions"
  • 2005: "... like the waves"
  • 2006: "Guide"
  • 2007: "nordic walking - the aura of the north"
  • 2008: "On the move" (30th Festival)
  • 2009: "Pulsating in the heart of Europe"
  • 2010: "As in a dream"
  • 2011: "In the mood"
  • 2012: "Wanderlust"
  • 2013: "It's Magic!"
  • 2014: "Speech Sound"
  • 2015: "Inspiration"
  • 2016: "New Horizons"
  • 2017: "Spiel.Freude"
  • 2018: 40 years of "Sound connects"
  • 2019: "Con Fantasia"
  • 2020: "Appassionato"

Venues and venues

Little by little, the entire Waldviertel was included in the festival's concerts. This conceptualized integration of around 30 venues with their acoustics became the festival's trademark.

Municipalities and cities

Castles, palaces and pens

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NÖN: Allegro Vivo - Festival founder: “I am grateful and humble!” . Article dated August 5, 2016, accessed August 8, 2016.
  2. ↑ Lower Austria Tourism Prize 2019 awarded. October 15, 2019, accessed October 15, 2019 .