The ‘Moonlight’ Sonata from a new angle

University of Bonn, Aula, Bonn, Germany

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Monday 2 September 2019

11 AM

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Festival: Beethovenfest Bonn 2019

Type: Classical Concert

City: Bonn, Germany

Starts at: 11:00

Duration:

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Festival

Beethovenfest Bonn 2019

‘Moonlight’: thus the motto of the 2019 Beethovenfest. What looks at first like a wry allusion to the ‘Moonlight Sonata’ turns out to be fruitful terrain for this year’s programme.

Programme

Giselher Klebe: ‘Sonata for Horn and Piano, op. 95 Alteration of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sonata op. 27, no. 2)’ (1985/86)

Francis Poulenc: Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant

Camille Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals

Hector Berlioz: ‘Les nuits d‘été’, song cycle for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, op. 7 (1856)

Overview

Beethoven, aware that his Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor had an unusual form, gave it the subtitle ’quasi una Fantasia’.

But it was only after his death that the Berlin music critic Ludwig Rellstab christened it the ‘Moonlight’ Sonata, making it the ne plus ultra of romantic music. In 1985-86 Giselher Klebe gave it modern garb by entrusting the melody to that most romantic of instruments, the French horn. No less romantic is Hector Berlioz’s song cycle ‘Les nuits d‘été’, which founded the genre of the orchestral song. Enigmatic, yearning and dark-hued, here the vocal part is embedded in the luxuriant sound of the orchestra.

Venue Info

University of Bonn - Bonn
Regina-Pacis-Weg 3

The University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the Rhein-Universität on 18 October 1818 by Frederick William III, as the linear successor of the Kurkölnische Akademie Bonn (English: Academy of the Prince-elector of Cologne) which was founded in 1777. The University of Bonn offers a large number of undergraduate and graduate programs in a range of subjects and has 544 professors and 32,500 students. Its library holds more than five million volumes.

Every year the matinee of the Beethovenfest takes place here. The auditorium in the Bonn area is not only a venue for university celebrations, but also for concerts. The bright hall as well as the good acoustics welcome the musical performance of the musicians.

Important Info

Festival: Beethovenfest Bonn 2019

Type: Classical Concert

City: Bonn, Germany

Starts at: 11:00

Duration:

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