Concerto Budapest Presented by Liszt Academy

“Yesterday, the distinguished Herr Doctor and Director of Music Haydn left here for Buda, so that at the summons of Her Imperial Crown Princess Palatine he can have his master work known under the title ‘The Creation’ sung and played ...” the Viennese Magyar Hírmondó reported in February 1800, announcing that less than two years after the first private performance of The Creation, and a year after the first public performance of the oratorio in Vienna, the near 68-year-old maestro and his already famous work had left for Pest-Buda. It was here in the city that he directed the very first performance in Hungary of The Creation on 8 March, the evening before the birthday of Palatine Joseph. Since then, the Haydn oratorio, a superb musical representation of the story of Genesis, has become a consistent part of concert life in Hungary, and for the last few years it has been back on the repertoire of András Keller and Concerto Budapest.