Mozart’s violin to travel to Cuba for the first time

Viena.- One of the violins of the great Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will travel to Havana for the concerts that will offer in Havana musician Frank Stadler, informed here the Mozarteum Foundation of Salzburg.

The concertmaster of the Mozarteum Orchestra from Salzburg will play the “Costa”, as the instrument is known, in a concert this week in the Cuban capital city.

Stadler will play the violin that belongs to the collection of original instruments of the genius of Salzburg, accompanied by the Orquesta de Jóvenes del Liceo Mozartiano de La Habana at the Oratory San Felipe Neri.   

Precisely in 2016, Austria and Cuba celebrate 70 years of diplomatic relations. According to the president of the Mozarteum Foundation, John Honsig-Erlenburg, this will be the first time that the “Costa” will sound in Latin America.

This violin, made in 1764 in Italy by Pietro Antonio Dalla Costa, is part of the objects exhibited at Mozart’s House Museum in Salzburg.

Mozarteum Foundation of Salzburg, responsible of preserving and spreading the legacy of the Austrian genius with the support of the European Union, developed in the Cuban capital the cultural project titled La música clásica europea en el entorno social de La Habana Vieja (The Euroepan classical music in the social context of Old Havana).

The initiative took Mozart’s work to the communities and closed in October of 2015 with a great festival dedicated to his music with participation of prestigious musicians like clarinetist Florent Heau, violinist Renaud Capuçon and violist Gérard Caussé, from France.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) is considered one of the most influential composers of the history: his work comprises all the genres of that time and includes more than 600 creations. Besides, it has a deep influence in the whole subsequent Western music.