Arnstorf Classics

Our orchestra, still fairly young, was founded in January 2005 and officially authorised and „put into operation“ by the community’s Cultural Committee in April 2005. As measured by the age range of our members, we’re rather a mixed ensemble.

Young and old enjoy making music together for the sheer pleasure of playing classical music in a classic orchestra. There are currently 18 musicians in our ensemble. Most members are “veterans” of the school of the Arnstorf Music Institute headed by Stanislava Klinzing, who also came up with the idea of founding an orchestra in Arnstorf. The orchestra then went to look for a sponsor, and the Arnstorf community quickly agreed to take over the orchestra’s sponsorship and administration. Ms Klinzing took over the orchestra’s musical direction and the rehearsals. The compositions were selected by her painstakingly. The orchestra is already proudly looking back at an impressive number of minor performances, e.g. at funerals, weddings, and other festive occasions. September 25th, 2005 saw the ensemble’s first major concert, staged in the magnificent Mariae Himmelfahrt Church (Ascension Church) of Mariakirchen.

This year will see the orchestra’s second major concert, which will be staged in the inner courtyard of Arnstorf Castle. This concert has been scheduled for Saturday, July 15th at 20:00 hrs, and all of us are hoping for good weather and good attendance; after all, rehearsals have already been going on all year! And we can already let a few things out of the bag about the program... This year, which happens to be a Mozart year, compositions by Mozart will obviously play a central role. Visitors can look forward to excerpts from several symphonies, a quintet, a serenade, various dances, and various arias from Mozart’s operas. All in all, listeners will get to enjoy a wide range of masterpieces from Mozart’s fecund creative career. Even Prague composer and Mozart friend Josef Myslivecek will receive homage in the "Concert at the Castle". We can’t wait to enjoy the breathtaking acoustics and atmosphere of the picturesque Renaissance inner courtyard of Arnstorf Castle owned by the comital Family of Deym. Anyone interested in joining us in making classical music together is cordially invited to contact our Cultural Consultant Karl Heinz Duschl, who can be reached under 08723/961018. We are still looking for musicians proficient in Cello, Double Bass, Trumpet, Flute, Bassoon, Bugle, Clarinet, and Viola.

Dazzling premiere for "Arnstorf Classics" - 2005

Homage to the Baroque period - Susanne Komander and Judith Kaltenecker delivered a virtuoso performance on strings

Applause which lasted several minutes filled the Mariae Himmelfahrt Church of Mariakirchen on Sunday night, September 25th, 2005. It was directed at the musicians of "Arnstorf Classics", who, under the conductorship of Stanislava Klinzing, had just wowed their audience with their first major concert, after a number of minor performances given at a variety of festive occasions. More than 100 people wanted to indulge in this special pleasure of musical art. "Within a mere few months, they managed to build up a homogeneous ensemble, and we all have reason to be proud of the "Arnstorf Classics", Mayor Alfons Sittinger enthused about the dedication of the members of the ensemble and the conductorship of Stanislava Klinzing, expressing exactly how the public felt.

The orchestra had been presented at the outset by PPC chairwoman Hildegard Asböck as one of the "children" of the successful Arnstorf Music Institute under the sponsorship Dr. Thomas Pröckl and Cultural Consultant Karl Heinz. The instrumentalists are recruited mainly from the musical offspring of the Music Institute headed by Stanislava Klinzing, but even somewhat more seasoned classical music aficionados such as Eggenfeld pensioner Peter Wiesse have been finding fulfilment of their musical talents since January 2005.

The serenade program paid homage to the Baroque period and its composers. Basse and stride dances by Paul Peurl from the first half of the 17th Century, a rondeau by Henry Purcell, and Georg Handel’s Festival Music were the fanfare start for transporting the public into the courtly festive mood of past royal houses. The subsequent Largo, also by Handel, was accompanied with feeling by Lukas Klinzing at the piano. Haydn’s Serenade allowed the strings to shine with brilliantly precise pizzicatoes. Heartfelt applause showed the audience’s appreciation for the outstanding violin solo played by 13-year old Susanne Komander, who let her talent shine with a Bouree by Johann Sebastian Bach. With young Anna Schuhbauer at the piano, the orchestra brought the beauty of a canon by Johann Pachelbel to the audience’s attention. The Symphony in A-Major by Jan Zach was followed by Judith Kaltenecker’s grand performance, who demonstrated her brilliance with the Concerto in D-Minor by Antonio Vivaldi, accompanied by Stanislava Klinzing’s magnificent violin solo. The icing on the cake of an all around brilliant evening was Mozart’s "Kleine Nachtmusik", and the minuet of that same opus, which followed after wild and persistent calls for encores.

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Performance at the Christmas Mass on December 24th, 2005

On Christmas Eve, "Arnstorf Classics" appeared together with the choir of the Liedertafel song ensemble at St. George’s Parish Church in Arnstorf. The program of this performance was dominated by Christmas melodies and Czech Pastoral Songs. Brigitte Quest of Mitterhausen served as vocalist support to the orchestra and fascinated the audience with a soprano solo. For a festive conclusion to a magnificent evening, "Silent Night" by Franz Xaver Gruber was intoned by the entire congregation.