The art and the spirit, the person and the culture:
the Fondazione Pro Musica e Arte Sacra welcomes you on a journey through history and for man

With the Vienna Philharmonic we started in 2018 the great project dedicated to Anton Bruckner, since 2024 will be the two-hundredth anniversary of his birth in Ansfelden, on September 4, 1824. To celebrate this important and historical date, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Christian Thielemann will execute from 2018 until 2024 the entire series of Bruckner’s symphonies, performing every year in one of the most important cathedrals of Europe, thus completing the entire cycle of the nine symphonies in seven years. 

We therefore invite you to embark on a musical journey through the cathedrals of Europe, together with the Vienna Philharmonic and under the direction of Christian Thielemann, so as to preserve and promote the power of creating the identity of this artistic and architectural heritage and pass it on to the generation future. 

The inauguration concert with Symphony n. 1 in C minor of Anton Bruckner was held on 3 June 2018 in St. Florian, Austria under the direction of Maestro Christoph Eschenbach.

The second appointment of this cycle took place on 2 May 2019 in the Berlin Cathedral, where the Vienna Philharmonic directed by Christian Thielemann performed Symphony n. 2 in C minor by Anton Bruckner.

Manifesto Maggio 2019

Initially this concert had the motto "for international peace and understanding". 

But seeing the devastating images of the fire of Notre-Dame, together with the Wiener Philharmoniker, we decided to change the motto of this evening's concert with the motto
"Let’s remain united! Solidarity for Notre-Dame de Paris".

Programma Berlino 2019

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BRUCKNER CYCLE (2018 – 2024)

Wiener Philharmoniker and Fondazione Pro Musica e Arte Sacra

2020 is proving to be an exceptional year, due to the spread of the COVID-19 health emergency. It has put every area of our lives, both public and private, to the test, with serious consequences in the economic and working environment, as well as in the human and social relationships of each of us.

The Fondazione Pro Musica e Arte Sacra also had to face this dramatic emergency. We have tried until the very end to keep to our long-planned commitments, but the implementation of the health protocols adapted to current regulations and the state of emergency has unfortunately forced the Fondazione Pro Musica e Arte Sacra to cancel the first part of the 19th International Festival of Sacred Music and Art, which was to take place in Barcelona, Spain, from 12 to 14 September 2020 in the Basilicas of Santa Maria del Pi, Santa Maria del Mar and at the Sagrada Família. The concert of the Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Christian Thielemann, scheduled for September 13 in the Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família with Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 4, will be moved to autumn 2021.

The other dates are being defined.