Josefowicz, Wiegers and the MKO

Aristidou, Wiegers and the MKO 2nd Subscription Concert 12.11.2026, 20 Uhr Prinzregententheater HOME IN A FOREIGN LAND – FOREIGN IN ONE'S HOME. This dialectic is existential in the works of Claude Vivier and Chaya Czernowin. As an orphan of unknown parents, a homosexual, and a French-Canadian, Vivier felt repeatedly marginalized. His lifelong search for his birth mother led him to Paris, where he was murdered by a prostitute in March 1983. Three years earlier, he memorialized himself with 'Lonely Child'. Czernowin's work revolves around origin and identity, her parents' Holocaust experiences, and the political conflicts in her homeland Israel. In 'Birds' from 1984, birds symbolize the longing to overcome divided skies. A threshold work is Claude Debussy's 'Petite Suite', premiered in March 1889. While it is still rooted in French Romanticism, it simultaneously anticipates the future. At the Pariser Weltausstellung 1889, Debussy would soon after become acquainted with Gamelan music from Java. With it, he created his Impressionism: a sonically new French home and identity. On his second journey to London, Haydn composed the Sy in 1794/95.