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Rehearsal with cathedral conductor Thomas Wasserfaller: 120 participants perform Haydn's "Creation" on October 6 at the Konzerthaus Klagenfurt.(Bild: Dommusik Klagenfurt)

From chaos to light, from nothingness to life: Joseph Haydn traces the creation of the world in his famous oratorio. The Dommusik Klagenfurt will perform "The Creation" with concert choir, orchestra and vocal soloists - with 120 participants - in the Konzerthaus Klagenfurt.

The cathedral music can also be heard outside the church walls from time to time, such as on October 6 with Haydn's famous "Creation". The date was chosen deliberately: It comes at the end of this year's Season of Creation, a period during which the Christian churches in Austria once again draw attention to the urgency of preserving creation and which this year lasts from September 1 to October 4. "It is a period in which the church invites us to rethink and, with an attitude of gratitude and joy for all that has been created, to become aware of the need to counter the destruction of God's creation," says cathedral priest Peter Allmaier.

Rehearsals for Hayn's "Creation": on October 6, the Dommusik Klagenfurt will perform the oratorio with 120 participants.(Bild: Dommusik Klagenfurt)

Joseph Haydn's oratorio "The Creation", which premiered in Vienna in 1799 and has lost none of its fascination ever since, is an invitation to see and appreciate the beauty of the world.

Rehearsals have been going on for months
"The work is a wonderful challenge for all the singers, who have been rehearsing for months. Haydn was a gifted composer who created music that touches everyone - musicians and listeners alike - in such a way that they become happy through making music and listening to it," says Cathedral Conductor Thomas Wasserfaller.

In the oratorio, Haydn musically traces the creation of the world as described in the Book of Genesis in the Bible: the creation of light, the earth, the heavenly bodies, water, weather and plants, fish, birds, animals and man. The third part tells the story of Adam and Eve's first happy hours in the Garden of Eden.

Haydn was a gifted composer!

Domkapellmeister Thomas Wasserfaller

The soloists Ursula Langmayr (soprano), Jan Petryka (tenor) and the Gurktal-born Georg Klimacher (bass), who can usually be heard as a baritone in the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, the Philharmonie Luxembourg, the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Madrid, Oxford or Vienna, will be singing with the Dommusik concert choir.

Tickets for "The Creation"
"The Creation" by Joseph Haydn begins on Sunday, October 6, at 6:30 pm at the Konzerthaus in Klagenfurt. Tickets are already available at the Heyn bookshop in Klagenfurt, at the Klagenfurt Cathedral Parish and from the Klagenfurt Cathedral Music Association on 0678/ 7819 658. Depending on the category, tickets cost 49, 39 or 28 euros, standing room is available for 15 euros.