TEHRAN-The Tehran Symphony Orchestra (TSO) will stage its first concert in the current Iranian year (started March 20) before the beginning of summer at Vahdat Hall in Tehran.

Titled “From the New World,” the performance, led by conductor Manuchehr Sahbai, will include pieces by international composers, IRNA reported.

In the concert, slated for June 19, the TSO will perform “Iphigeneia in Aulis: Overture” by Christoph Willibald Gluck, “The Symphony No. 9” by Antonín Dvořák, and “Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Minor” by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Christoph Willibald (1714-1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire, he gained prominence at the Habsburg court in Vienna. There he brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices for which many intellectuals had been campaigning. With a series of radical new works in the 1760s, including “Orfeo ed Euridice” and “Alceste,” he broke the stranglehold that Metastasian opera seria had enjoyed for much of the century.

The strong influence of French opera encouraged Gluck to move to Paris in 1773. Fusing the traditions of Italian opera and the French (with rich chorus) into a unique synthesis, Gluck wrote eight operas for the Parisian stage.

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana.

Dvořák's style has been described as “the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them,” and Dvořák has been described as “arguably the most versatile composer of his time”.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific authorship of music across a variety of instruments and forms, including; orchestral music, solo instrumental works, keyboard works, organ works, and choral works. Since the 19th-century Bach Revival, he has been regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music.

The Tehran Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1933, is Iran's oldest and largest symphony orchestra. During the years, celebrated musicians including Rubik Gregorian, Morteza Hannaneh, Haymo Taeuber, Heshmat Sanjari, and Farhad Meshkat took over as the orchestra's conductor.

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