Focus on female composers
Matinee in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus on Franz Liszt's birthday with a lecture and lots of music
In the annual special concert in honour of the jubilarian Franz Liszt, the focus this time is on "Female composers around and after Liszt". At the matinee on Liszt's 212th birthday on Sunday, 22 October at 11:00 a.m. in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus, works by Marie Jaëll and Grazyna Bacewicz will be performed.
The keynote address will be given by musicology professor Dr. Nina Noeske. Admission is free. The matinee at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar takes place within the framework of the 41st Weimar Liszt Days (20-22 October) in cooperation with the German Liszt Society.
First on the programme is Grazyna Bacewicz's Quartet for Four Violins from 1949, performed by Marie Mrosek, Ruth Weidner, Marit Gernert and Marie-Luise Lange, all students of the Music High School Schloss Belvedere as a centre for highly gifted students at the Weimar University of Music.
After the ceremonial lecture by Prof. Dr. Nina Noeske, the works "Sphinx" and "Promenade marinale" by Liszt student Marie Jaëll will follow, interpreted by Veronika Voloshyna on the concert grand piano. Afterwards, the previous university council of the Weimar University of Music will bid farewell - and the new university council will be welcomed by President Prof. Anne-Kathrin Lindig.
The musical conclusion of the matinee will be provided by pianist Mikhail Kambarov, who will perform Liszt arrangements of the Schubert songs "Gretchen am Spinnrad" and "Auf dem Wasser zu singen".
On the evening before, the 41st Weimar Liszt Days invite you to another concert: At a lecture-concert on Liszt's birthday on Saturday, 21 October at 7:30 pm in the hall Am Palais, the harmonium and celesta interpreter Lars David Kellner will be the guest. He will be joined by Susanne Sperrhake (recitation).
Works by Franz Liszt, Max Reger and Sergei Rachmaninov, among others, will be performed. The harmonium as a very specific instrument plays rather a minor role these days. The pianist Lars David Kellner - as he has already demonstrated through CD releases - is once again putting it centre stage. Admission is also free here.
[17 October 2023]