It is the Festival Lviv Mozart is only three years old and already a cultural event of the first rank in Ukraine:. Its co-founder, the conductor Oksana Lyniv, invites you this time to Brody.
She is a power woman: Oksana Lyniv. As the Maestra has already made it to the very top in the still male-dominated world of orchestra leaders. Currently, the 41-year-old music Director works in Graz, Austria and is considered one of the most successful female Conductor in the world. But that is not all, what has the charismatic musician In her home country, Ukraine, she founded a youth orchestra and a private Festival. At the beginning of August it will be held for the third Time in Lviv and the picturesque surroundings of the West Ukrainian metropolis.
Initiated but not as a summer entertainment for Locals and tourists, but as a cultural and political platform with the proud aim of the Region to retrieve on the cultural map of Western Europe. Not only the gem of Lviv, which is frequented by the tourists for a long time, but also his decades of public interest in disadvantaged environment, which is historically and culturally very exciting – Eastern Galicia. “It is an area where trade routes, languages and cultures fertilize for centuries, to cross, to mix, and each other,” says Oksana Lyniv in the DW-interview.
Conductor Oksana Lyniv
From the Mozart-son to Joseph Roth
Was named the Lviv Mozart by Franz Xaver Mozart. The youngest Mozart-son settled in 1813, in Lviv, which was then called Lemberg, and worked there for three decades. The music of the two Mozarts, father and son, is an integral part of the Festival programme.It gives but also for more profound Connections between the Western part of Europe and the historical area of Lviv, which for centuries was torn between the Austrian and the Russian, later Soviet, Empire. A personality, in which these Compounds manifest and was the Austrian writer and Journalist Joseph Roth, the current edition of the Lviv Mozart is dedicated to. “Joseph Roth was a Humanist and an important figure in the relations between Ukraine and the German-speaking Europe,” says Oksana Lyniv. “In his fate, the drama is reflected tables history of our peoples in the 20. Century.”
The ruins of the synagogue of Brody
Josef Roth was fighting for the cultural autonomy of the Ukraine
As one of the first made Roth also for the cultural independence of the Ukraine and in the 1920s, regrets the fact that one of the major peoples of Eastern Europe still does not have a state of their own.
The writers of the old Austria came 125 years ago, in Brody, about 100 kilometres North-East of Lviv, in a family of Orthodox Jews to the world. With the age of 19, Roth, Brody left for always. In 1933, went on his works in Germany during the book burning in flames. In 1939 his short and tragic life in Paris ended. The unique culture of the Jewish Schtetls, as youth was Brody in the time of Roth’s, with all its whimsical, gentle and broken to Shape, and remained a life-long source of his inspiration.
“Come to Brody!”
This year’s opening concert of the Lviv Mozart-festival was a Gamble, because it took place not in the metropolis of Lviv, but in Roth’s home city of Brody – a provincial place which, with just under 24-Thousand inhabitants, has a lot of charm, but no concert hall. The backdrop for the Open Air concert provided the imposing ruins of the once magnificent Central synagogue of Brody – destroyed in the Second world war and never rebuilt.
The Remains of the Jewish cemetery in Brody
The line-up of almost two hundred artists, orchestra, chorus and international soloists – was in the over a thousand year history of Brody is determined uniquely. In memory of Roth Mozart was played at the opening of the Lviv on 4. August, the “Kaddish”Symphony, Leonard Bernstein – the parents of American composers were once fled to the United States from Rivne, a city only 100 kilometers from Brody away.
Jewish life in Brody
Not only Joseph Roth was meant to be the musically most demanding performance, but also Thousands of Jewish Galiziern, the victims of the pogroms and Mass exterminations in the Ukraine in the 20th century. Century were. Brody you could call it a burning glass of the tragedy: the end of the 19th century. Century, over 80 percent of the population were Jewish, the town was considered the “Jerusalem” of Galicia. Only almost 3,000 Jewish inhabitants were counted in the German occupation of the Schtetls 1941. Just 88 of them survived the Holocaust…
Oksana Lyniv at the opening concert in Brody
The concert in Brody was the conductor Oksana Lyniv a home game: it is Also here, born and raised – only a few blocks from the ruins of the synagogue. Her parents still live in the old house. Here the citizen of the world Lyniv, Pride of the family, and in the meantime, the whole town returns to, again and again, to your energy resources to charge: “The further you go, the more important it is to consider of his origin. Only if one has in mind, where you come from, you grasp where to go”, says Oksana Lyniv.