Mountain Visions

The hotspot for classical music fans was idyllically and majestically located just outside Chemnitz. Whether surprising short concerts, thrilling symphony concerts or elegiac night concerts – for two months, over 120 top-class performers conquered the ‘Crown of the Ore Mountains’. At the forefront was the Junge Philharmonie Augustusburg. Fifty-two highly talented musicians from all over Germany performed Antonín Dvořák's 8th and 9th symphonies, ‘From the New World’, at the opening and closing concerts.

Parallel to all the events, a construction project of European dimensions grew with the ‘360° Klangwelt’ (360° world of sound) in the town church of St. Petri. 4,200 pipes, distributed across six locations in a church interior – the organ had never been heard like this before. Visitors accompanied the creation of this acoustically unique cultural monument.