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Austrian composer and musician
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2020-01-31 14:36:44
[…] in C minorKristian Bezuidenhout (piano), Strings Scottish Chamber OrchestraQueen's Hall, Edinburgh3.00pm Sunday 23 February 2020:Beethoven: Cello Sonata no. 2 in G minorBrahms, Cello Sonata no. 1 in E minor for Cello and PianoShostakovich, Cello Sonata in D minorLydia Shelley (cello), Nicolas Stavy (piano)Conway Hall, London25 Red Lion Square, London6.30pm (pre-Concert talk 5.30pm) Sunday 23 February 2020:Beethoven: 5 Variations on 'Rule Britannia', 6 Variations on an Original Theme in G, 9 Variations on a March by Dressler in C minor, 12 Variations on 'Menuet à la Viganò' from Haibel’s Le nozze disturbate in C, 7 Variations on 'God save the King' in CFeldman: Last PiecesJohn Cage: 7 Haiku, In a LandscapeGeorge Crumb: ProcessionalCédric Tiberghien (piano)Wigmore Hall, London7.30pm Sunday 23 February 2020:Coleridge-Taylor: Othello Suite,Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1 in G minorBeethoven: Symphony No.7Tai Murray (violin), Chineke! Orchestra/ Fawzi HaimorQueen Elizabeth Hall, London7.30pm A guide to Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' Sunday […]
2020-01-10 06:38:12
“Nine Variations on a March by Dressler”: Music by the 12-year-old Beethoven
Here is Beethoven’s first published work, written in 1782 when the composer was twelve years old. It’s a set of nine variations on a simple, stately march melody by Christian Ludwig Dressler (1734-1779), a now obscure German composer, operatic tenor, violinist, and music theorist. First, we hear Dressler’s original theme, which is infused with military fanfare rhythms. Filled with a playful, improvisatory spirit, Beethoven’s variations begin with sly embellishments. Each becomes more adventurous ...
2018-09-02 10:36:00
A Relationship of Equals: Beethoven and the Piano Trio
[…] be performed with violin instead of clarinet. Beethoven’s most important contributions, however, are generally held to lie in the six ‘official’ piano trios. Compositional Milestone Carl Alois, Fürst von Lichnowsky-Woschütz We start at the beginning, with the first trio from Beethoven’s official op.1, that is, the set of three works Beethoven considered important enough, in 1795, to designate with that number. The Nine Variations on a March by Dressler for piano, published earlier, were not afforded that honour; nor were a number of intervening works. There is something undeniably special, debts to Mozart and Haydn notwithstanding, to this epiphany. All three op.1 works were first publicly performed in 1793 or 1794 in the house of Prince Lichnowsky, to whom the set is dedicated, although much of their music had likely been conceived, and some of it written, in Bonn, prior to the composer’s […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-06-21 05:57:25
Chopin Symposium to Unfold
[…] it is going to be a riot. I look forward to our first rehearsal.” Roberto Poli plays the Kalkbrenner piece with pianist Gila Goldstein and two of the young participants of The Chopin Institute. The program also includes vocal works by Mozart, Rossini, and Bellini performed by Alida Doornberg and Colleen Palmer; and a work for solo oboe by Henri Brod (who was one of the featured artists at the 1832 concert), performed by Michael Dressler. More about the lectures, master classes, and concerts at The Chopin Symposium is here . The post Chopin Symposium to Unfold appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer .
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