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Orchestral Symphony Concert

Tausendundeine Nacht – Wie Musikgeschichte Erzählt Wird – Congress Graz, Graz

Date
Wednesday, 11 November 2026
Time
19:30
Venue
Congress Graz
Address
Albrechtgasse 1, 8010 Graz, Austria
City
Graz

About this event

An orchestral concert in KUG’s 2026/27 season links Emilie Mayer’s Faust Overture and Gounod’s ballet music from Faust Act V with Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphonic suite Scheherazade. The event highlights how music history is narrated, foregrounding 19th‑century contexts in France, the upheavals of 1789 and 1848, and the barriers that hindered women composers’ visibility. Emilie Mayer is presented as an exception among successful women artists of her time, while Augusta Holmès is cited as a French composer who also wrote her own opera libretti. The Orchester der KUG performs under the baton of Claire Levacher. The page frames the concert with research perspectives in historical musicology and gender studies associated with KUG scholar Nicole K. Strohmann. No staged production team is listed; the format is a symphonic concert with academic program context.

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