DOMUS & HORTUS ARTIS 2025
Originally a summer open-air chamber classical music festival in the garden of the Albrecht House, Hortus artis has this year teamed up with its indoor twin, Domus artis, to create a 6-month festival event called Domus & Hortus artis 2025. The summer part of the festival takes place in the popular surroundings of the garden of the Albrecht House at 1 Kapitulska Street in Bratislava, a place that belonged to the Albrecht family of musicians from 1945 to 1996. The programme of this year’s event, extended in time and programme, consists of 16 concerts of chamber classical music for various ensembles and ensembles.
The common denominator of this year’s dramaturgy is the emphasis on French music and its emanation to other European cultures, including Slovak. This emphasis is prompted by the round anniversaries of important French composers this year – 150th anniversary of the birth of Maurice Ravel, 100th anniversary of the death of Erik Satie, anniversary of the birth of Gabriel Fauré, 75th anniversary of the death of Charles Koechlin, or the anniversaries of composers who were influenced by French music or had close contact with it (e.g. the 70th anniversary of the death of George Enesco or the 50th anniversary of the death of Stefan Németh-Samorínsky). The festival seeks to highlight the fact that the French musical, sonic phenomenon has played an unquestionable role in shaping the compositional poetics of many key figures in music 19. and 20th-century world-renowned (not bypassing Central Europe) and the fact that the distinctive French style has much deeper historical roots – two concerts take us to the court of Louis XIV and Louis XV. The works of André Campra, Jean-Féry Rebel, Jacques Aubert, Jean-Philippe Rameau and Jean-Marie Leclair, among others, shone on their courts.
Detailed programme of the event with the possibility to buy tickets can be found in the PROGRAMME section
The DOMUS & HORTUS ARTIS 2025 chamber music festival is supported from public sources by the main partner of the project – the Slovak Art Council and is also held thanks to the financial support of the Bratislava City Foundation, the Music Fund, the Bratislava Old Town, the Social and Cultural Fund of SOZA, the French Institute in Slovakia and the Polish Institute in Bratislava. The partner of the event is the Bratislava Cultural and Information Centre, the media partner is Hudobný život.
