Staatskapelle Berlin Final Subscription Concert

On June 27th and 28th, the Staatskapelle Berlin performed the final subscription concert at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and the Philharmonie Berlin, led by Christian Thielemann. In the first part of the concert, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 34 in C major K. 338; and after the break, Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 in E major.

In the summer and autumn of 1780, Mozart composed his Symphony in C major, K. 338, in his native city of Salzburg, and in his adopted home of Vienna he performed the work for the first time in the spring of the following year. Anton Bruckner also settled in the music metropolis on the Danube, which offered a wide variety of opportunities. With his 7th symphony from the early 1880s, he achieved his long-awaited breakthrough as a composer. The slow movement of the symphony, committed to classical patterns, harmonically advanced and tonally extremely impressive, is one of Bruckner's most famous symphony movements and is programmatically linked to the death of Richard Wagner in 1883.