"Mozart really belonged to the 19th century." | Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson | Louisiana Channel
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“Mozart really belonged to the 19th century”, says Icelandic star-pianist Víkingur Ólafsson about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart “He belonged to a new area, where the artist was a free thinker. Image, if he had lived a little longer and would have had a dialogue with Ludwig van Beethoven.”
Ólafsson has no doubt that Mozart was a so-called Wunderkind. “He did have a divine gift.” But to Ólafsson another aspect of Mozart’s music is even more fascinating. According to Ólafsson Mozart wrote his best works after the age of 25, when his life was in deep crisis and the Vienna aristocracy had turned its back on him. “The greater the music became, the less popularity he had.” To Ólafsson Mozart’s legacy must be seen in the light of the tragedy.
Víkingur Ólafsson grew up in Reykjavík and started playing the piano at an early age under the tutelage of his mother, a piano teacher. He studied at the Juilliard School in New York, earning bachelor's and master's degrees under the supervision of Jerome Lowenthal and Robert McDonald. He also took lessons with Ann Schein.
In 2011, Ólafsson was the soloist in the opening concert of Harpa in Reykjavik, playing Edvard Grieg’s piano concerto with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Since he has developed into one of the most recognized and award-winning artists within classical and contemporary music.
In 2016, Víkingur signed an exclusive recording contract with the renowned label Deutsche Grammophon releasing four albums featuring the music of Philip Glass, Johann Sebastian Bach, Debussy & Rameau as well as Mozart & Contemporaries. Ólafsson has collaborated with many contemporary artists among them John Adams, Philipp Glass, Daniel Bjarnason and Icelandic singer Bjørk. He has also recorded the soundtrack of Darkest Hour, a film directed by Joe Wright, and released Bach Reworks, featuring six 'remixed' works by Johann Sebastian Bach from the likes of Ben Frost, Peter Gregson, Valgeir Sigurdsson as well as Ólafsson himself.
Víkingur Ólafsson was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in November 2021.
Camera: Jarl Therkelsen Kaldan
Edited by: Jarl Therkelsen Kaldan
Produced by Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2021
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What a beautiful idea of Mozart, the first indie artist.
Words as beautiful as true to fact.
Mozart was ahead of his time.
as a painter these words resonate deeply, thank you for your hard work
What s beautiful painting on the wall - and beautiful music of course.
The background with painting 🖼:)
That looks like a Per Kirkeby painting.
It is. 'Portugalien' (2008) by Per Kirkeby
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can you please tell me the title of the piano piece in the background of the nicole krauss interview pls. Many thanks
Does anybody know which piece of music Vikingur plays at the end of the video?
Ave Verum Corpus
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Who made that paint?
Danish artist Per Kirkeby painted it. It's called 'Portugalien' (2008)
Greatest CLASSICAL European musician, sure. But definitely not the greatest human music to ever been written. The world does not revolve around european culture
Relax.
Not interested in feeding a discussion on this subject, but to think that any other music is equivalent in importance or achievements to western classical music... is simply ignorance of this importance and these achievements. Again, not interested at all in a discussion, since I suppose any relativist in this matter is coming from a simple lack of knowledge.