Festival International Théodore Gouvy

The Festival international Théodore Gouvy ( Internationale Festspiele Théodore Gouvy ) is a festival for classical music, which is held annually in honor of Louis Théodore Gouvy (1819–1898) in the former collegiate church Saint-Étienne in Hombourg-Haut (German Oberhomburg ) in the historical region Lorraine takes place. Théodore Gouvy and his family lived in this place in the summer from 1867.

Since 1995 the festival has been officially organized by the city, the Grand Est region and the Moselle department .

The venue for the Théodore Gouvy international festival: the collegiate church of St-Étienne in Hombourg-Haut

Objective of the festival

The festival specializes in classical music in honor of Théodore Gouvy (1819–1898), a Franco-German composer of the Romantic period . The aim of the festival is to re-perform works by Gouvy that have been wrongly forgotten. For this project there is a close collaboration between the Institut Theodore Gouvy, the male choir of Hombourg-Haut and the Orchester national de Lorraine .

The 2019 festival

In 2019 the motto of the festival is “200. Birthday of Théodore Gouvy ”even after this bicentenary was included in the list of“ Commémorations nationales ”2019 of the French Ministry of Culture. Among the six bicentenary concerts, July 4th is the highlight of the festival, one day after the composer's 200th birthday. It took place with the inauguration of a monument in honor of the Franco-German composer. The concert program consisted of only one work with "Aslega", oratorio based on a Scandinavian legend, the first version of which was composed from a French text in 1876 and was performed in Paris. But in the last years of his life, Gouvy had composed this oratorio from scratch with a German libretto . This second version was never performed.

Because it represents undeniable beauty and dramatic strength, the conductor Jacques Mercier wanted to resurrect this work by Gouvy.

Web links

• Festival International Théodore Gouvy
• The male choir of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St. Petersburg sings the "Benedictus" from the Missa Brevis by T. Gouvy - The International Théodore Gouvy Festival Hombourg-Haut 2013 - Collegiate Church of Saint Stephen (Collégiale Saint-Étienne).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Festival international Théodore Gouvy. 27e Rencontres musicales de Hombourg-Haut
2. ↑ 200th birthday of the Franco-German composer Theodore Gouvy . In Sarrebrücker Zeitung . Retrieved July 21, 2019.
3. ^ Work for three soloists, large choir and orchestra
4. ↑ Jacques Mercier and Gouvys "Aslega" . In Le Républicain Lorrain on June 30, 2019. Accessed July 20, 2019.
5. ↑ Powerful music, powerful choral moments . Friedrich Spangemacher in Opus Kulturmagazin . Retrieved July 20, 2019.