Varvara Manukyan: Beethoven – Schiller. An encounterAll about the Sonata Pathétique
This event is in the past.
Beethoven’s piano sonatas as intimate chamber music – an adventure? Fortepiano recital by Varvara Manukyan with an introduction by Helmut Balk.
This event is in the past.
Beethoven’s piano sonatas as intimate chamber music – an adventure? Fortepiano recital by Varvara Manukyan with an introduction by Helmut Balk.
The piano sonatas Beethoven wrote in the 1790s were mainly performed in Viennese salons by the composer himself. In the intimate circle of his students and colleagues – Vienna’s leading aristocrats and intellectuals – he presented the message behind his music for discussion. So in those days, Beethoven’s sonatas pertained to intellectual discussion – in the case of the Pathétique especially to Schiller’s newly published Aesthetic Letters. Performed on the intimate chamber music instrument, the power of this composition is pure sound poetry.
With the kind support of the Greifenberg Institute of Organology; sponsored by the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich
