Klaus Sonnleitner’s organ concert takes the audience from Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to French sound worlds and improvisations in the spirit of Anton Bruckner.
Short curatorial statement:
Klaus Sonnleitner’s organ concert digs deeper into the history of organ music, particularly its significance in sacred music. It is the outermost counterpoint to the AI organ performance Fantasie #1 by Quadrature and illustrates that the artistic possibilities opening up with AI may be new, but the data sets needed for machine learning depend heavily on a rich tradition in the respective field of application, which is outlined in the different performances in St. Florian.
Klaus Sonnleitner’s organ concert digs deeper into the history of organ music, particularly its significance in sacred music. It is the outermost counterpoint to the AI organ performance Fantasie #1 by Quadrature and illustrates that the artistic possibilities opening up with AI may be new, but the data sets needed for machine learning depend heavily on a rich tradition in the respective field of application, which is outlined in the different performances in St. Florian.
Biography:
Klaus Sonnleitner (AT): Church musician, organist, musicologist and theologian. He is member of the community of the Augustinian Canons Regular at Stift St. Florian where he serves as abbey organist, spiritual companion and as a minister in one of the monastery’s parishes.
