Thursday at 19.00
Bruckner's Austria map
Langgaard Hall
Hear about the culture Bruckner was part of, first as a choirboy at the St. Florian Monastery in Linz, then as a rural teacher in the Austrian provinces, and finally as an organist and composer in the imperial city of Vienna.
Lecture by litterateur and Austrian connoisseur Jørgen Herman Monrad.
Friday 10.30-11.15 am
Superstition in Ribe
Ribe Cathedral School
When does belief become superstition.
And is superstition good or bad?
In the old town of Ribe, superstition degenerated into gruesome witch trials.
Today, the Hex museum is located in the apartment where Langgaard lived the last months of his life.
Lecture by historian Maria Østerby Elleby, who helped create Hex.
The lecture begins with:
Benna Moe: Catholic Hymn (Edgar Allan Poe)
Rued Langgaard: Tro (Emilie Thorup) BVN 88:1 (1914) from Tre aandelige Sange.
Students from Ribe Katedralskole 2nd grade music class.
Conductor: Poul Emborg
Thursday and Saturday
Langgaard Lounge
Café Rued, Porsborg and Hotel Ribe
Meet a number of today's artists who will answer questions from the audience while we enjoy a Rued Langgaard porter from Ribe Bryghus.
Thursday: Composer Signe Lykke from the artist group Motherboard talks about the inspiration from Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad and her poem Kun stemmen bliver tilbage.
Kirstine Elise Pedersen, cello, and Mathæus Bech, double bass, play their arrangement of Rued Langgaard's String Quartet No. 3 BVN 183 (1924).
Saturday: Interviews with performers from the day's concerts.
Host: Karen Bendix
Thursday 22.00 / Café Rued, Porsborg and Saturday, 22.30 / Hotel Ribe
Saturday at 15:00
Benna Moe's organ
St. Catharine's Church
Like Anton Bruckner and Rued Langgaard, Benna Moe loved the organ.
In Alpesuite , she paints moods during a day in the mountains.
Along the way, imagination takes over, the contours blur and Benna Moe's penchant for mystery becomes apparent.
In the Fugue in D minor, Bruckner is inspired by the great Baroque organ master Johann Sebastian Bach.
And with the Scherzo from the so-called Symphony No. 0, which the self-critical Bruckner withdrew, we are dealing with striking music that is played more and more today.
The concert ends with Langgaard's Nemo contra deum nisi deus ipse (No one against God except God himself) and Som Lynet er Kristi Genkomst.
Both works are extremely dramatic and deal with the end times, when a fire will destroy the world.
Flemming Dreisig knew Benna Moe and talks about her after the concert in an interview with Esben Tange.
Sunday at 11:30 and 13:00
Rud and Dora: 'Catholic in the head'?
Rued Langgaard Hall
There is a Catholic thread running through Rued Langgaard's life and music, and this can be experienced in the piano work Sponsa Christi tædium vitæ (Bride of Christ, Lifesleigh) BVN 297, played in Dora - Summer 1913.
After the identity of Rued Langgaard's great love, Dora From, became known in 2017, it turned out that Langgaard's interest in Catholicism is very much linked to Dora.
Lecture by Bendt Viinholt Nielsen.
