Thursday, 5.9.2024, from 17:00 Bruckner impromptu

Flash mobs and pop-up concerts with the Stegreif Orchester  bring the Bruckner Festival to the city. International Bruckner Festival Linz 2024.

Since 2018, the consistently implemented conceptual and programmatic reorientation of the International Bruckner Festival Linz has been accompanied by a return to its namesake and a clear commitment to this composer, whose work has never been regarded as the museum content of the festival, but always as the subject of a lively debate. The series of events with (pop-up) concerts, sound installations and performances established in 2019, which took place on the 'bridge days' between the birthday concert on 4 September and the official opening week, contributed to this. These events, which took place on the 'bridge days' between the birthday concert on 4 September and the official opening weekend of the Brucknerfest, made a valuable contribution by providing low-threshold access to a contemporary artistic approach to Anton Bruckner or the respective festival theme, which was mostly presented for discussion in public space, beyond the concert hall, in the middle of the city centre, with free admission.

In the anniversary year 2024, the Stegreif Orchester will take the Bruckner Festival and the music of the birthday boy out into the city on 5 and 6 September, delivering what its name promises: excerpts from Bruckner's works will be performed as part of flash mobs and pop-up concerts, creatively modified and adapted, enriched with improvisational elements and, of course, always played extemporaneously. On streets and squares, in the station concourse as well as in churches and museums, Bruckner and his music will be omnipresent in Linz for two days, true to the motto "200 years and not a bit quiet".

Free tickets required.