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Weyse Festival 2024

Author Sabrina

Published on: May 17, 2024

THE VERSATILE WEYSE
Concerto Copenhagen and the Royal Danish Academy of Music will celebrate Weyse's 250th anniversary at a large-scale Royal Danish Academy of Music will celebrate Weyse's 250th anniversary. Through drama, stories, talks and various concert formats concert formats with over 100 performers, the focus will be on the composer, his person and his time. in focus.

It will be the biggest celebration to date of a composer who we know well in a small way, but who we get here in all his breadth.

There is hardly a schoolchild in Denmark today who has not become acquainted with Weyse's melodies. Julen har bragt velsignet bud, I østen stiger solen op, Det er så yndigt and Nu titte til hinanden are songs that have manifested themselves in the Danish cultural heritage. Unfortunately, Weyse's versatility as a composer is still overlooked today, with very few people knowing his symphonies, song plays and cantatas. But in a large-scale collaboration between Concerto Copenhagen and the Royal Danish Academy of Music, it is precisely this multifaceted composer who is put on stage.

One composer - 3 different concerts

We will have the opportunity to hear Weyse in all his breadth and in different formats that appeal to children, young people and adults alike. For this year's celebration, we have carefully selected music from Weyse's versatile oeuvre and put it together in three main concerts under the headings: Church, Salon and Theater. Weyse's instrumental works, excerpts from cantatas and ballads, hymns, songs and his entire first symphony are on the program when Concerto Copenhagen under the direction of Lars Ulrik Mortensen, students from the Conservatory and the Conservatory's children's choir join forces for a full-day tribute to one of the most significant composers in Danish music history.

Program for the day:
13.00-14.15: Concert - "Weyse and the Church"

14.30-15.15: Talk between phd. and Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen
Jens Hesselager and director and playwright Johan Klint Sandberg

16.00-17.15 Concert - "Weyse and the Salon"

17.30-18.15 Book launch and reception at Multivers publishing house on the occasion of Jens
Hesselager's new book about Weyse

19.00-20.15 Concert - "Weyse and the theater"

In addition to three different concert formats, actors Emil Knutzon, Signe Thielsen and Minna Flyvholm, directed by Johan Klint Sandberg, take you closer to the man behind the music we all know - Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse!

"I want to tell the story of a young artist who believes so much in music as interpersonal communication that he doesn't even realize he is being overtaken by the romantic future. In many ways, the 1820s are somewhat reminiscent of the 2020s, and MON dares to ask whether Weyse represents a break between the intellectual and the physical in a way that we can mirror in today's polarizing cultural debate." -Johan Klint Sandberg

In true festival style, treat your taste buds between concerts with food from Ristet Rug's food truck and enjoy cold refreshments at the open bar with wine, beer and water

We look forward to welcoming you to the concert hall at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. We strive to offer good access conditions, but due to special conservation and building conditions, there are certain restrictions. Read more here.