Year: 2022

Contacts, impulses, friendships   In the 19th century, the contacts of Croatian composers with Czech cultural centres and artists began to enrich Croatian music. One of the first Croatian composers to study in Prague was Vatroslav Lisinski (1819–1854) – the author of the first Croatian opera who, among other things, composed songs to texts by [...]

Dear friends and guests of the Lednice-Valtice Music Festival,   It is time to reveal a unique programme of the next, already 7th year of the festival to you. Unlike last year’s focus on Baroque and the music of Antonio Vivaldi, we will present more romantic music and recall the past of the Moravian Croats [...]

Lednice-Valtice Music Festival From 26 August to 8 October 2022 The theme of the 7th LVMF is related to the story of the Moravian Croats, the inhabitants of today’s Croatia. After the constant Turkish conquests during the old times, they went to the northern parts of the Habsburg Monarchy with a vision of a calmer [...]