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Dear friends and guests of the Lednice-Valtice Music Festival, Another year, thematically inspired by Balkan inspirations and the past of the Moravian Croats, is the past. Balkan music, its temperament and stories spoke to us listeners through the concerts of the 7th festival year. It was exactly the past and the history that was touching – not only for me and my Croatian roots. Afterwards, I realized that everything starts somewhere. In order to discover something new and beautiful, we must have the opportunity to do so. Therefore, 8th year of the festival stands on the idea of new beginnings

This year’s 7th year of the Lednice-Valtice Music Festival is approaching! The LVMF 2022 Jugoprolog project starts today – a show of Balkan music! On Friday 26th August  in Hlohovec and on Saturday 27th August in Charvátská Nová Ves, we will introduce you to the music that moves the Balkans! Promo video Jugoprolog LVMF 2022     Come and experience great bands for yourself!!                 The Serbian Bojan Ristic Brass Band, named after the bandleader of the same name, will present its music. He won the prize several times at the famous Guča

Undoubtedly, Lednice-Valtice area is a landscape marked by many hunting lodges. One of them is Hardtmuth’s Temple of Diana – Rendez-vous near Valtice. Built between 1810 and 1813, its design deliberately imitates the Roman triumphal arches. There are also celebratory inscriptions to be read on the south: “To Diana, the goddess of the hunt, and her worshippers, Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein 1812.” On the north: “To you this house is dedicated, O shining sister of Phoebus, and may untouched the forest continue to grow in your honour.” Four allegorical figures of the daytime. Relief decoration by a Viennese

Dear fans and attendants of the Lednice-Valtice Music Festival, In the neighbourhood of festivals larger in scope and history, this festival – now in its seventh year – is still a junior. But a junior that has looked around the world and found its way and its place. And the audience favour. After last year’s edition devoted to baroque music, this year will be lightened by romantic music and refreshed by lively rhythms. The programme will remind us of the past of the Moravian Croats who came to South Moravia in the sixteenth century. Fleeing from the Ottoman armies, they

Accompanying program of LVMF 2022    1. Lecture | The arrival of the Charvatians in South Moravia 25th September 2022 | 14:00 | Havlíčkova Villa, Břeclav-Poštorná Reservations at prodej@lvhf.cz (Capacity 40 people), Entrance Fee Voluntary The lecture by the historian Miroslav Geršic explains the arrival of the Charvats in the Valtice region in connection with the Liechtenstein princely house. The expansion of the Ottoman Empire into the Balkans was main reason for the arrival of the Croats to the area of not only the then Lower Austrian Valtice. After the conquest of Constantinople (today’s Istanbul) in 1453, Belgrade in 1521 or the threat

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 Czech poets. Ideas concerning national art from Czechia influenced the repertoire of Croatian choral societies and the Prague Conservatory became the place of education for several Croatian musicians. The composer Dora Pejačević (1885–1923), daughter of the Ban and Count Theodor Pejačević and the Hungarian Countess