All waltz!?
Two concerts with guest professors and participants of the Weimar Master Classes in the Schießhaus
The international "Weimar Master Classes" at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar will give two guest performances in the atmospheric ambience of the Schießhaus. "May I please: Alles Walzer!?" is the theme of the guest professor concert with the world-famous violinist Lukas Hagen, who will devote an entire evening to the three-four time signature on Saturday, 22 July at 7:30 pm in the Schießhaus.
Lukas Hagen (primarius of the Hagen Quartet) will play waltzes, ländler and Linz dances by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert and Johann Strauss, among others, together with Sara Mayer (violin), Werner Neugebauer (violin/viola) and Josef Radauer (double bass).
The waltz is considered an outstanding representative of Austrian and especially Viennese musical tradition. The triumphant progress that the Strauss dynasty has celebrated throughout the world with this dance has a long history and is the result of a fusion of the most diverse folk music elements of a monarchy that unites many peoples.
In this exciting guest professor concert, the origins of Viennese dance music will be musically traced and an approach from Salzburg via the Upper Austrian Ländler and the Linz Dance to the Viennese Waltz will be shown.
Tickets at 20 euros, concessions 15 euros, are available at the Tourist Information in Weimar and at the box office.
A colourful mosaic of the most diverse ensembles can already be experienced on Friday, 21 July at 7:30 pm in the Schießhaus. On this varied evening under the motto "Masterful", participants from the "Weimar Master Classes" of Tanja Becker-Bender (violin), Wen-Sinn Yang (violoncello), Jörg Brückner (horn) and Robert Levin (piano) will play. The audience can expect a fascinating mixture of timbres, virtuosity and chamber music interplay.
Programme items include excerpts from Mozart's Violin Concerto KV 219, Fauré's Violin Sonata op. 13 and Schubert's "Arpeggione" Sonata for cello and piano. In addition, Daniel Schnyder's "Le monde miniscule" for solo horn, the first movement from Beethoven's last piano sonata op. 111 and the Andante cantabile from Mozart's piano sonata KV 330 will be heard.
Tickets at 12 euros, reduced rate 8 euros, are available at the Tourist Information Weimar and at the box office.
[20 July 2023]