Sigismund Neukomm in Brazil20 September 2021 20:00Don Juan Archiv WienA Concert Commemorating
the Bicentenary of the first Performance of Don Giovanni out of Europe in Rio de Janeiro on 20
September 1821On the Rio Don Giovanni-Day 20 September 2021 a concert is dedicated to the
works of Sigismund Neukomm composed in and for Brazil.The programme also includes a composition
by the Brazilian composer José Maurício Nunes Garcia (Rio 1767-1858) highly esteemed by
Neukomm and occasionally described as the Brazilian Mozart. He conducted the first performance
of Mozart's Requiem with Neukomm's Libera me in the Igreja Nossa Senhora do Parto on 19
December 1819.The concert is a cooperation od Don Juan Archiv Wien with partners in Austria
Portugal and Brazil: the Mozarteum University Salzburg Divino Sospiro - Centro de Estudos
Musicais Setecentistas de Portugal and Musica Brasilis.Accordingly the music will be
performed in four locations: Vienna Salzburg Queluz Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro. While the
partnering institutions' concerts with commentaries are recorded especially for this occasion
the performarnces in Vienna will be broadcast live.
