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Chamber Concert

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Sun, Dec 15, 2024, 18:00
The sequence of fourths in Schönberg’s First Chamber Symphony represents a “fanfare of new music”: it marks both a decisive moment in which the extended tonality of late Romanticism was on the verge of dissolving and a turning point for the “dissonant experimenter,” who was proud of this work. But success did not come: “There is nothing I long for more intensely than to be taken for a better sort of Tchaikovsky. Or if anything more, that people should know... Read full text

Keywords: Chamber Music, Symphony Concert

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Musicians

Korbinian AltenbergerViolin
Samuel LutzkerCello
Henrik WieseFlute
Christopher Patrick CorbettClarinet
Lukas Maria KuenPiano

Program

Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E major, op. 9Arnold Schönberg
Piano trio A minor, op. 188 (Arr. by Henrik Wiese)Carl Reinecke
Piano trio in B flat major, op. 97 (“Archduke Trio”)Ludwig van Beethoven
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