{"id":913,"date":"2022-05-16T12:59:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T10:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chopinfestivalcz.vendys.net\/?page_id=913"},"modified":"2022-05-16T12:59:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T10:59:40","slug":"about-the-festival","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chopinfestivalcz.vendys.net\/?page_id=913&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"About the festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The internationally renowned Fryderyk Chopin Festival has been an integral part of the summer cultural events in Mari\u00e1nsk\u00e9 L\u00e1zn\u011b for decades. It is organized annually by the Fryderyk Chopin Society on the third week of August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These August days filled with music are among the biggest cultural events in the Czech Republic, they significantly enrich the cultural life in Mari\u00e1nsk\u00e9 L\u00e1zn\u011b and bring to the city many excellent performers and prominent conductors from all over the world. From the start, the society also organizes the competition for the young interpreters of Chopin\u2019s music. Its instigator and later the head of jury was till his death (August 13, 1988) professor V\u00e1clav Holzknecht. The competition started as an annual event and at the present time takes part every other year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the outset, it was outlined as broad-based cultural event. The organizers invite the most prominent Czech and foreign interpreters of Chopin\u2019s music who present also works by other great classical composers. For its 50th anniversary the festival got an overhaul in the form of new, modern concept which nevertheless draws upon the long tradition. Apart from symphonic concerts, day and evening recitals, matin\u00e9es and art exhibitions the organizers added chamber and jazz music concerts and various social and sports events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/chopinfestivalcz.vendys.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/chopinuv-festival-007.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chopinfestivalcz.vendys.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/chopinuv-festival-007.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chopinfestivalcz.vendys.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/chopinuv-festival-007-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chopinfestivalcz.vendys.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/chopinuv-festival-007-768x465.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internationally renowned Fryderyk Chopin Festival has been an integral part of the summer cultural events in Mari\u00e1nsk\u00e9 L\u00e1zn\u011b for decades. It is organized annually by the Fryderyk Chopin Society on the third week of August. These August days filled with music are among the biggest cultural events in the Czech Republic, they significantly enrich&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/chopinfestivalcz.vendys.net\/?page_id=913&#038;lang=en\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">\u010c\u00edst d\u00e1le &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About the festival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":489,"parent":907,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chopinfestivalcz.vendys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chopinfestivalcz.vendys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chopinfestivalcz.vendys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chopinfestivalcz.vendys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chopinfestivalcz.vendys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chopinfestivalcz.vendys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"https:\/\/chopinfestivalcz.vendys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/913\/revisions\/914"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chopinfestivalcz.vendys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chopinfestivalcz.vendys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chopinfestivalcz.vendys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}