A wie Applaus

The concert is over, the orchestra has played brilliantly, the conductor bows ... and we in the audience are clap. But why are we actually doing this, this clapping thing? And why didn't we applaud much earlier if we liked the music so much? Let's explore the secrets of applause together – from ancient Rome to the present day.

Lucerne Festival's series "The Classical ABC" is aimed at (german-speaking) children, young people and the young at heart, aged eight years and up. Each short episode explains a particular term from the field of classical music.