{"id":12178,"date":"2026-04-14T16:45:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/event\/concentus-musicus-sacro-profanus"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:45:22","slug":"concentus-musicus-sacro-profanus","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/program\/concentus-musicus-sacro-profanus","title":{"rendered":"\u201eConcentus musicus sacro-profanus\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"

11.09. 7:00 PM Festival and Congress Centre, Hall 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Concentus Musicus Wien
\nArtistic Director Stefan Gottfried
\nProgram \u201cConcentus musicus sacro-profanus\u201d
\nWorks by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Romanus Weichlein, Georg Muffat <\/p>\n

Under the Honorary Patronage of H.E. Mag. Andrea Iki\u0107-B\u00f6hm – Ambassador of Austria in Bulgaria
\nWith the kind support of the Austrian Cultural Forum Sofia (\u043b\u043e\u0433\u043e)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Concentus musicus Wien, founded in 1953 by the world-famous conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt and his wife Alice, is among the pioneers who paved the way for the success of the historically informed performance movement and still remains at the forefront of historical performing practice. The ensemble\u2019s musicians spent more than four years rehearsing as to fine-tune their sound and arrive at an authentic interpretation of works from the baroque and pre-baroque eras before giving their debut concert in 1957 at the Palais Schwarzenberg in Vienna. That event soon launched an annual series of concerts in Vienna, tours all over Europe and a multitude of recordings. They had purposely chosen to name the ensemble \u201cConsentus musicus\u201d, meaning \u201charmony, to sound together\u201c.
\nThey keep searching, experimenting, discovering and presenting to the audience almost forgotten and rarely performed pieces from the early music\u2019s treasury with passion and knowledge
\nThe works they have chosen to present in Varna include pieces by the Austrian composer Johan Schmelzer who exemplifies the polyphonic traditions during the first half of XVIIth century. His music had greatly influenced later German and Austrian composers; among those was Heinrich Biber, also a virtuoso violinist and composer whose musical language paved the way to Pachelbel and Bach. Bieber\u2019s contemporary Romanus Weichlein is also presented in this concert \u2013 he managed to build his own unique style (being a composer and a Benedictine monk). George Muffat is the last composer in this selection \u2013 French-born who considers himself a German, he left four important collections published between 1682 and 1698 \u2013 Sonata from the earliest of them \u201cArmonico tribute\u201d will conclude the program.
\nThe program consists of works, which were created, inspired and first presented under the auspices of the Habsburg dynasty during the heyday of this period.
\nPure devotion to sacred music together with the pure joy from performing it for the royal court \u2013 that\u2019s the intersection of all the pieces in this carefully chosen program by one of the leading baroque ensembles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

11.09. 7:00 PM Festival and Congress Centre, Hall 1 Concentus Musicus Wien Artistic Director Stefan Gottfried Program \u201cConcentus musicus sacro-profanus\u201d Works by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Romanus Weichlein, Georg Muffat Under the Honorary Patronage of H.E. Mag. Andrea Iki\u0107-B\u00f6hm…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"eventcat":[56],"organizer":[],"event_tags":[80],"location":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/12178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/12178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12181,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/12178\/revisions\/12181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"eventcat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventcat?post=12178"},{"taxonomy":"organizer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organizer?post=12178"},{"taxonomy":"event_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_tags?post=12178"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=12178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}