Festival Tango Argentino Chemnitz 2025
Cooperation with the Saxon Mozart Society
The Tango Festival Chemnitz 2025 honors Carl Friedrich Uhlig, the inventor of the concertina. He first presented the instrument in Chemnitz in 1834. Uhlig developed it in his workshop—about 40 meters from today’s Karl-Marx Monument. Carl Friedrich Uhlig and his apprentices, including Carl Friedrich Zimmermann, further refined the concertina. Saxony, especially Carlsfeld, became a center of instrument manufacturing, and since Heinrich Band in Krefeld gave the concertina its name, the instrument spread as the bandoneon. World-famous and closely associated with Argentine tango is the bandoneon made by Alfred Arnold in Carlsfeld, known as the “AA,” whose sound continues to captivate and inspire.
Program:
- May 29, 8:30 p.m.: Opening Milonga
- May 30, 6 p.m.: Eternal Procession – An audiovisual journey through the history and present of the bandoneon
- May 31: The Chinese Origins of the Bandoneon Sound – Concert with Wu Wie and Duo Liquid Soul
