Virtuoso Weimar
Prof. Thomas Steinhöfel plays a sonorous piano recital with works from Bach to Bartók
With his solo recital, he will introduce the final concerts of the 150th anniversary year of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar: Prof. Thomas Steinhöfel will play a piano recital in the series "Virtuoso Weimar - Teachers in Concert" on Tuesday, 15 November at 7:30 pm in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus.
In a carefully designed programme, he will take the audience on a musical journey from Johann Sebastian Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier" to a sonata by Mozart, piano pieces by Schubert and Franz Liszt's "Funerailles". Admission is free!
The first half of the concert is dedicated to the Baroque and Viennese Classical periods: In addition to the Prelude and Fugue in A minor from the second volume of Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier", the concert will also feature the Fantasy and Fugue in A minor BWV 904 as well as three arrangements by Bach - a Largo, a chorale prelude and an organ chorale. Thomas Steinhöfel will then interpret Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata in C major KV 309.
After the intermission, the arc will be drawn from the classical to the modern. First on the programme are three piano pieces and the Hungarian Melody in B minor D 817 by Franz Schubert. This will be followed by piano pieces by Zoltán Kodály and a sonatina by Béla Bartók. Finally, "Funerailles" from the "Harmonies poetiques et religeuses" by Franz Liszt will provide a contemplative finale.
Thomas Steinhöfel has been teaching at the Weimar University of Music since 1990, since 1993 as Professor for Artistic Song Interpretation and Repetition. Concerts as soloist, chamber musician and Lied accompanist have already taken him to France, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Netherlands, Brazil, the USA and to many concert stages in Germany.
The concert series "Weimar Soloists - Professors in Concert" was launched as early as the 1990s. Under this umbrella brand, teachers from the FRANZ LISZT SCHOOL OF MUSIC Weimar performed in public to flank the diverse concerts of the students with a demonstration of their own artistic ability as a source of inspiration. In 2019, the concert series has been renamed "Virtuoses Weimar - Lehrende im Konzert".
More information:www.hfm-weimar.de/150
[10 November 2022]