Rare gems
Chamber Music Days invite you to twelve concerts in the university halls and the Forum Seebach
Chamber music lovers traditionally get their money's worth at the end of the semester: the University of Music is once again hosting its diverse “Chamber Music Days” with a total of twelve concerts between January 30 and February 10. The concert series is planned and organized by the newly appointed Weimar professor of chamber music, pianist Martin Klett. Admission to all events in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus, the Saal Am Palais, and the Forum Seebach is free.
To kick things off, the audience can expect “a weekend full of joyful playing, the pleasure of making music together, great masterpieces, and rarely heard gems,” explains artistic director Prof. Martin Klett. Under the motto “Between Tempesta and Blues,” the Chamber Music Days will open on Friday, January 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus. Right at the start, the rarely performed Sixth Sonata for String Quartet, penned by the famous opera composer Gioachino Rossini, will be performed. In addition to duets by Beethoven, Schubert, and Ravel, the program also includes string quartets by composers Pavel Haas, Erwin Schulhoff, and Viktor Ullmann, who were murdered by the Nazis.
“When Chamber Music Dances” is the title of the following concert on Saturday, January 31, at 3:30 p.m. in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus. Here, tangos by Astor Piazzolla and the dance suite “Souvenirs” by Samuel Barber, among others, will be performed. This will be followed in the evening on January 31 at 7:30 p.m. in the Saal Am Palais by “Dialogues in Sound” – featuring Johannes Brahms' late first clarinet sonata, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's melancholic violin sonata in E minor, K. 304, and György Ligeti's modern bagatelles for wind quintet.
The fourth concert of the Chamber Music Days on Sunday, February 1, at 3:30 p.m. in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus will be characterized by “Glow and Ecstasy”, as the title so beautifully puts it. Not to be missed here is Brahms' passionate third violin sonata, accompanied by Manuel de Falla's spirited guitar trio “El Amor Brujo.” “Camille Saint-Saëns' septet for trumpet, strings, and piano, which concludes the concert on February 1, is particularly extraordinary,” says Prof. Martin Klett.
Further information: www.hfm-weimar.de/veranstaltungen
[20 January 2026]