›Versuch über die Fuge‹ - Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Widmann

In the organizer's words:

For Jörg Widmann, the fugue, which he first had to deal with as a composition student, is today the "supreme discipline" par excellence. His concert program dedicated to the fugue impressively demonstrates that, for all their regularity, individual expression always predominates in the great fugue works. In this sense, Bach is the "forefather of the fugue". Through Baron van Swieten, who had an important collection of Bach and Handel manuscripts, Mozart immersed himself in Bach's work. His 'Adagio and Fugue' is a highly original adaptation of Bach. With the 'Grosse Fuge', originally intended as the final movement for the String Quartet op. 130, Beethoven ventured the most radical, most modern contribution of all. It runs subtly through Widmann's 'Versuch über die Fuge'. In the original version, String Quartet No. 5 from 2005, a solo oboe has been added to the chamber orchestra version. It is the sound shadow of the soprano voice, embodied by Sarah Maria Sun, who reflects the biblical words of the preacher Solomon. In the form of circular canons, it deals with transience and return in an astonishingly Buddhist way.

PROGRAM

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Contrapunctus from 'The Art of Fugue'
BWV 1080 (excerpts)
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 'Adagio and Fugue' KV 546
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 'Great Fugue' in B flat major op. 133, version for string orchestra
string orchestra
JÖRG WIDMANN 'Versuch über die Fuge', version for soprano
and chamber orchestra

TICKETS

Ticket price 30 € / 15 € for Freundeskreis members
U28 ticket (≤ 28 years) 15 €

Price information:

Ticket price € 30 / For Freundeskreis members € 15 U28 ticket (≤ 28 years) € 15