Month: June 2024

Greeting from the General Partner of LVMF 2024

Friday June 28th, 2024

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 [...]

Promovideo for LVMF 2024

Tuesday June 18th, 2024

  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 [...]

Freemasons and Music in XVIII–XIX Centuries

Monday June 10th, 2024

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 [...]

Greetings from the Director of LVMF, Jiří Partyka

Friday June 7th, 2024

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 and Garden Art

Monday June 3rd, 2024

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 [...]