Maribor Stories

Aleksander Lajovic, Robert Stolz, Emerik Beran, Viktor Parma, Eduard de Lannoy, Franz Liszt, Hugo Wolf

A blend of piano pieces that entertain and tell stories.
Matinee for our youngest audience.

The Saturday matinee at the Maribor Castle will once again provide an authentic and high-quality musical experience tailored especially for our youngest audience. On this occasion, however, it is not only children who will be guaranteed to hear new music for the first time, but adults too. Adriana Magdovski will lift the veil on Maribor’s musical history and play a selection of neat little pieces by composers who are associated with Maribor in various ways. Some of these pieces will be performed for the very first time.

Aleksander Lajovic worked practically his entire life in Maribor, where many still remember him as an important music teacher. A similar contribution was made to the city by Czech composer Emerik Beran, who taught music at the Maribor Music Society. Viktor Parma, one of the most prolific Slovenian composers of theatre music, spent the last years of his life in Maribor, where he worked as a choral conductor. The influential Belgian nobleman Eduard de Lannoy chose the idyllic Viltuš Castle near Maribor as his residence. From there, he made a significant contribution to musical life in Graz and Vienna in the first half of the nineteenth century, even composing original works himself. The beginnings of the career of the last master of Viennese operetta, Robert Stolz, also unfolded in Maribor, and the city was a stop on a tour by the star pianist Franz Liszt. Although born in Slovenj Gradec, the master of lieder, Hugo Wolf, also spent some time in Maribor, where he attended grammar school.

Anyone who may have doubted that Maribor has strong musical roots will soon be convinced of the opposite on listening to the selection of music by the aforementioned composers!