In the organizer's words:

Central and East Germany, which was dominated by Protestantism, produced a large number of composers over the centuries and offered them a lively musical environment. The program focuses on instrumental music in the late Baroque period. The starting point is Georg Philipp Telemann and Johann Sebastian Bach, two of today's best-known composers of their era. But there are also works by other, unjustly forgotten contemporaries to be discovered, such as Johann Adolph Hasse.

Picking up on the tastes of the time, a number of composers also wrote treatises as textbooks for interested amateur musicians, which today represent important contemporary documents and source works. Johann Joachim Quantz, for example, wrote detailed instructions on playing the transverse flute, including how to compose and play music in good taste.

The selected works reflect a compositional and social upheaval. Although still very much in the style of the Baroque period, the composers gradually expanded boundaries and softened rules. The result is a completely new tonal language that foreshadows the classical period with gallantry and sensitivity.

Euphoria Baroque:

Anne Hönig, recorder

Ruth Lehmann, baroque violoncello

Connor Leinweber, harpsichord

Price information:

Free admission, donations are requested.