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Odyssey Festival Orchestra: Berg & R. Strauss

At Cadogan Hall, Chelsea, London · 1 performance from Tue 22 Sept to Tue 22 Sept.

TITLE: Odyssey Festival Orchestra --- SUBTITLE: Magic Mountains: Two Responses to War --- DATE/TIME: Tuesday 22 September 2026, 7.30pm --- EVENT COPY: In 1915, the young Alban Berg and the 50-year-old Richard Strauss completed major orchestral works. Both were responses to the Great War that had broken out in mainland Europe. Both required an enormous orchestra. And both were influenced by mountains. Berg's Three Orchestral Pieces, composed in his own Alpine retreat, attempted to rewrite the very language of Western harmony in the face of the crumbling power of Imperial Vienna. Strauss' Alpine