March 2nd 2025 at 17:00 Tallinn House of the Blackheads

HAYDN + MOZART

STARLING

Soloist and conductor JAAN OTS

ESTONIAN SINFONIETTA

Concertmaster PEETER MARGUS

In the upcoming seasons, in the Estonian Sinfonietta's new series HAYDN+, in addition to the works of the great master, the audience can enjoy pieces that are undeservedly performed too rarely in concert halls.

Why HAYDN +? In addition to the exceptional music of Joseph Haydn, his 300th birthday will be celebrated in less than 8 years, on March 31, 2032! In the composer’s rich musical legacy, alongside well-known works, there are still pieces waiting to be discovered.

On Sunday, March 2nd, at 17:00, in the White Hall of the Tallinn Philharmonic's House of the Blackheads, music by Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will be performed.

But why Starling?
For about three years, the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart kept a pet starling. Composer had affection in general for birds. The first record of the starling is the entry Mozart made in his expense book when he bought it on May 27th 1784. The music, Mozart jotted down in the book, is fairly close to the opening bars of the third movement of his Piano Concerto No. 17, which Mozart had completed a few weeks earlier, in April. Presumably, Mozart taught the bird to sing this tune in the pet store, or wherever it was, that he bought it.

Tickets are available at Piletilevi and at the concert venue an hour before.