Mozart Week 2026: The Queen Of Instruments

Name: Mozart Week 2026: The Queen Of Instruments
Start: 2026-01-23T11:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-01-23T23:59:00+01:00
Location: Stiftung Mozarteum – Großer Saal

Mozart: lux æterna is the motto of this anniversary Mozart Week, we celebrate the eternal light of Mozart, explains Rolando Villazón, director of the Mozart Week. 2026 is a year with two major Mozart anniversaries: It marks the 270th birthday of Mozart, and it has been 70 years since the world's most significant Mozart festival was founded in 1956.

The Queen Of Instruments:
Iveta Apkalna, Organ

Program:
Mozart Overture from Suite in C Major KV 399 /
Johann Sebastian Bach Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor BWV 582 /
Pēteris Vasks Viatore
Dedicated to: Arvo Pärt

Following this, at approximately 12:30 PM, Artist Talk
Johannes Honsig-Erlenburg in conversation with Iveta Apkalna and Hannfried Lucke in the Wiener Saal