200 years ago Anton Diabelli asked 50 composers to each write a variation on a waltz theme he had written – not a single women composer was among the composers. In 1924, the anthology entitled “50 Variations by the Most Excellent Composers and Virtuosos of Vienna” was published by the music publisher Cappi & Diabelli.
200 years later, on 05.11.2023, an extraordinary musical event will take place in the Staatstheater Braunschweig: The 50th premiere of waltz variations for solo piano on the same waltz theme by Diabelli. What makes this event particularly remarkable is that this time the variations are exclusively by 50 talented women composers from 22 different countries. The project was initiated by musicologist Claudia Bigos from Braunschweig and is under the patronage of General Director Dagmar Schlingmann.
For the performance 10 students from the piano class of Prof. Ewa Kupiec from the Hanover University of Music and Performing Arts (HMTMH) were selected. More infos
The sheet music edition is published by Furore Verlag.
Marie Awadis Armenia/Lebanon/Germany
Emanuela Ballio Italy
Marina Baranova Ukraine/Germany
Victoria Bond USA
Carmen Maria Cârneci Romania
Daria Cheikh-Sarraf Germany/Poland/Iran
Michaela Dietl Germany
Violeta Dinescu Romania/Germany
Asia Dojnikowski Poland
Siegrid Ernst Germany
Carlotta Ferrari Italy
Susanne Hardt Germany
Jessi Harvey USA
Dorothea Hofmann Germany
Sophia Jani Germany
Justina Jaruševičiūtė Lithuania/Germany
Lydia Kakabadse United Kingdom
Armenuhi Karapetyan Armenia
Ursula Keusen-Nickel Germany
Catherine Kontz United Kingdom/Luxembourg
Géraldine Kwik France
Leorah P. Switzerland/Israel
Sharon Lynn Makarenko Canada
Laura Manolache Romania
Zela Margossian Lebanon/Australia
Barbara Mayer Germany
Ulrike Merk Germany
Anamaria Meza Romania
Conchi Muna Spain/Germany
Janet Oates United Kingdom
Karola Obermüller Germany/USA
Jane O’Leary USA/Ireland
Sheena Phillips United Kingdom/USA
Agnes Ponizil Germany
Anna Rubin USA
Florence Sabeva Germany
Elena Samarina Russia
Dorothee Schabert Germany
Catherine Schuppenhauer Germany/Austria
Julia Schwartz USA/Switzerland
Anna Segal Ukraine/Israel
Hedda Seischab Germany
Judith Shatin USA
Oxana Sivova Russia/Germany
Yang Song China
Anne Terzibaschitsch Germany
Ying Wang China/Germany
Lanqin Yu China
Tatsiana Zelianko Belarus/Luxembourg
Dr. Khadija Zeynalova Azerbaijan/Germany