Stuttgart Academic Orchestra perform Souvenir de Cirque Renz by Gustav Peter

Souvenir de Cirque Renz (Memory of Circus Renz) Gustav Peter (~ 1833 – 1919) The Stuttgart Academic Orchestra Veronika Stoertzenbach, conductor Recorded Live at the Endler Hall, Stellenbosch, 2014. Programme note: There is little known about Gustav Peter’s life. His most famous work is the “Souvenir de Cirque Renz” for xylophone and orchestra. It was composed at a time when fast dancing resembling a gallop – originally used in light music – was popular. In this period the xylophone was rediscovered and the “Zirkus Renz” enjoyed a great degree of esteem in Berlin. Licensed to YouTube by SME (on behalf of Sony Classical); LatinAutor - UMPG, Public Domain Compositions, LatinAutor, LatinAutor - Warner Chappell, UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDITORAS DE MUSICA - UBEM, and 1 Music Rights Societies --- The Academic Orchestra of the University of Stuttgart’s musical tour of South Africa, was co-hosted by the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and the University of Stellenbosch. The University of Stuttgart is one of Germany’s oldest technical-learning universities and enjoys an excellent international reputation.The roughly 70 musicians from the visiting orchestra performed together with the University of the Western Cape’s Wind Orchestra. Prof Wolfgang Holtkamp, Director of the Department of International Relations at the University of Stuttgart said that it had been a unique experience for the orchestra to visit impressive classical music venues such as St Georges Cathedral and...