The ensemble 'Harmonie Universelle' creates a beautiful and bright evening for us under the theme

Listening to Mozart's music in the pocket format of a violin duo is a very special kind of pleasure. While today it is easy to listen to almost any piece at any time and in almost any place, this was quite complicated before the invention of recordings: you had to go to a concert or the opera or play it yourself. Arrangements of the most popular works in chamber music formations were popular among the up-and-coming bourgeoisie, and Mozart's famous operas were naturally at the top of the popularity scale. Publishers in Vienna, Paris, Amsterdam, Mainz and Offenbach set about transcribing Mozart's works for small and very small ensembles for the huge domestic music market.

Florian Deuter and Mónica Waisman have found a whole series of such contemporary arrangements of Mozart's operas and piano sonatas in "pocket format" for violin duo, which bring the well-known melodies into the new form with a great deal of wit and finesse. The listener can observe the reduction of the full sound with a smile and delve into the charming details of domestic music around 1800.

We can all look forward to this special kind of house music in our music house.