The carillon of the Gdańsk Main Town Hall together with a group of trumpets will join the celebration of the upcoming holidays and anniversaries at the beginning of May. Carillon concerts are a joint initiative of the City of Gdańsk, the Gdańsk Museum and musicians of Tubicinatores Gedanenses. They will be held live on 1 May 2020 at 5.00 p.m., 2 May at 12.05 p.m., and 3 May at 1.00 p.m. and streamed online on the website https://www.gdansk.pl/ and on the "Gdańsk Carillons – Gdańsk Museum" Facebook profile.
The most important holidays and anniversaries always fall at the beginning of May. This year we are also celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven. According to the Gdańsk tradition, carillon concerts with trumpet players will be held to celebrate these occasions. Concerts of wind instruments refer to the Gdańsk tradition of tower music, the so-called "Turmmusik", practiced from the 15th to the beginning of the 20th century. Carillon music accompanies the most important city celebrations from 1561, when the first carillon was mounted on the tower of the Main Town Hall. Both groups joined forces only in the nineteenth century. Today, the concerting tradition is continued by musicians from the Tubicinatores Gedanenses ensemble (Gdańsk trumpet players) and the city carillonist Monika Kaźmierczak from the Gdańsk Museum, which has a tower instrument consisting of 37 bells with a total weight of approx. 3,5 tons. The smallest bell – "Saint Adalbert – weighs 6 kg, and the largest – "Solidarity" – 628 kg.
The concerts will feature Beethoven's works, including Ode to joy, Polish patriotic songs – the Polish anthem Mazurek Dąbrowskiego, Mazurek 3 Maja, and Witaj majowa jutrzenko by Rajnold Suchodolski, as well as compositions by Emil Miszek, a member of Tubicinatores Gedanenses and a winner of the Fryderyk Academy Award.
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