Thu, 16. 4. 2026, 19.00 hrs

B6 JUPITER TITAN

Venue: Zlín Congress Centre  |  Organizer: Filharmonie Bohuslava Martinů, o.p.s.  |  Price: 390,- 330,- 280,-

Jupiter and Titan or Mozart’s last and Mahler’s first. These are two masterpieces -  two pivotal compositions of the European symphony separated by a full 100 years - which ring out in the Congress Centre in April 2026 in a performance by the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic under the baton of its chief conductor Robert Kružík.

Mozart's last symphony, his 41st, originally bore the title Symphony with the Final Fugue but today we know it as the Jupiter, a nickname that was not used by Mozart himself, coming as it probably did from the London violinist and impresario Johann Peter Salomon, who sought to capture the monumentality and almost divine perfection of the work with that name. This is a composition in which Mozart achieves a perfect combination of the old (baroque polyphonic) style with the new (classical homophonic) in a masterful way. The high point of this synthesis is the concluding Finale, considered by many to be one of the most remarkable pieces of work he ever wrote. The work gradually became a mainstay of the symphonic repertoire and contributed significantly to the symphony establishing itself as the most important orchestral form.

Gustav Mahler wrote his first symphony during his tenure at the City Theatre in Leipzig. It was written relatively quickly partly because it contains musical motifs from his own earlier works and also from the work of other composers. Indeed, he once compared composing to children's building blocks: "We create new buildings from the same blocks over and over again,” he wrote. “Those blocks have been there, ready to use, since childhood—the only time that is designed for gathering them.”