

 
Concert of The Hermitage Academy of Music
The words taken as the name for the project were exclaimed by Catherine II to answer the question of who should be invited to the Russian court to fulfil the honourable mission of creating Russian school of music - ...only Mozart! The project directed by the conductor Saulus Sondetskis implies a number of concerts. The first one was held on 5 October 1999 in the Alexander Hall of the Winter Palace. The orchestra of the State Hermitage Saint-Petersburg Camerata and the Chapel Choir of Saint-Petersburg performed Requiem. On 22 December 1999 in the Hall of Jupiter of the New Hermitage two pieces were performed - Symphony N 41 Jupiter and Concertanto for violin and viola. On 8 February visitors of the Museum listened to the following pieces of the great composer - Concerto for oboe with orchestra in C major, KV.314 and Symphony N 40 in G minor, KV.550 performed by the orchestra of the State Hermitage Saint-Petersburg Camerata.
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