Year: 2024

The 9th edition of the Lednice-Valtice Music Festival (LVMF) took place from September 14 to October 12, 2024, as part of its main program. LVMF annually presents a fresh dramaturgy, and this year’s edition followed the theme: MUSICAL ALCHEMY IN THE FREEMASON’S GARDEN OF LEDNICE CASTLE. A prelude to this was the festival’s Prologue, held [...]

Dear audience of the 3rd LVMF 2024 concert, The concert titled Czech Music Without Borders on October 4th at 18:00 will take place at the Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Hlavní 1, Břeclav-Poštorná). Unfortunately, the original location, Pohansko Manor, is currently inaccessible due to post-flood maintenance. Your tickets for specific seats remain [...]

We thank the President of the Czech Republic, the Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic, the Governor of the South Moravian Region, the ambassadors of Liechtenstein and Israel, as well as prominent figures from cultural and political life for their beautiful words in our 2024 catalog.       Petr Pavel | President of [...]

Dear fans of music and art,   it is with great pleasure that we join the Lednice-Valtice Music Festival again in 2024, celebrating its ninth year. We are thrilled to be a part of this exceptional cultural experience, which this year focuses on the breathtaking Lednice-Valtice area, a unique landscape of 283.09 km² in the [...]

  You can watch the Promovideo for LVMF 2024 HERE 🎼 This year’s Lednice-Valtice Music Festival (LVMF) 2024 will focus on the intertwining of musical wealth and Masonic symbolism. From the Prologue at Moravský Krumlov Castle to the final Gala Concert at Valtice Castle, visitors will have the opportunity to delve into the secrets of [...]

Certainly the most thorough and dedicated historian of the late Enlightenment in Moravia is the art historian Jiří Kroupa. His lifelong research is summarised in his book called Alchymie štěstí – Pozdní osvícenství a moravská společnost 1770–1810, which traces the social structure and transformation of the landed gentry into a courtly aristocracy. Kroupa showed how [...]

Dear fans of classical music, We are honoured to welcome you again to the Lednice-Valtice Music Festival, which is entering its ninth edition this year. Annually, we strive to bring unique and inspiring programme and this year we have decided to dedicate our festival to the theme of Freemasonry and its influence on music. With [...]

The Enlightenment is a fascinating period in human history. I believe it began in gardens. Geometric gardens were designed in France, culminating in the gardens of Versailles, to show a man’s ability to control nature. Plants were adapted into unnatural geometric shapes but reflecting a shift in human thought. Mankind thought it had become independent [...]

The court kapellmeister to the prince-elector of Saxony, Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741–1801), was not only an important figure in the cultural life of Dresden at the end of the 18th century; during his lifetime, he was highly regarded not only in Germany but also abroad. His story reads like a fairy tale: the son of [...]

Sheet music changes, music flair remains Concerts of classical music defined by the reciprocity of mutual richness and Freemasonic symbolism – such an arrangement is presented on the programme of LVMF 2024. The visitors will be presented with the secrets of music world, from the LVMF Prologue at Moravský Krumlov Chateau through the Opening Gala [...]