“It is important, especially today, to keep alive the memory of a person like Bruno Walter because he was able – in a way few others were – to demonstrate, in an extraordinary way, the potential of music and the arts to overcome borders. The Bruno Walter Music days not only pay homage to this artist and humanist, and gesture towards a prolific musical era, they also help in the search for the creation of a shared – cultural – European future.”

Heinz Fischer,
Former President of the Republic of Austria