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In 2025, the 200th anniversary of Fanny Hensel‘s birth will be celebrated worldwide. She is one of the most important female composers of the 19th century. Born in 1805, she composed over 460 works, including piano pieces, songs, chamber music and orchestral and choral works. Her work is lyrical and expressive and has received great interest and recognition in recent years.

In preparation for the anniversary, the Basel Chamber Orchestra will perform the Overture in C major at several European venues in Scotland, Poland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland in August 2024. And the oratorio, the music for the dead of the cholera epidemic, will be heard on September 28 in Saarbrücken, performed by musicians from the Saarland State Orchestra and the Saarbrücken Oratorio Choir under the direction of KMD Annemarie Ruttloff. Particularly impressive: the funeral choir. Here you can listen to a CD recording.

The glacial sonorities for 4 flutes by dorothea hofmann can be heard again:
The ensemble Vibration4 will perform its program GLETSCHER-REQUIEM, dedicated to the melting Rhone glacier!
on Tuesday, July 30, 2024 at 18:00 at the Goms Summer Concerts in the
St.Michael center on the bettmeralp/Switzerland
and on Wednesday, July 31 at 18:00 at the Classical Festival of Haudères /Switzerland
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Novara in Italy, September 6, 1620: the composer and nun Isabella Leonarda is born. At the age of sixteen (1636), she entered the Collegio di Sant’Orsola convent, where she lived for the rest of her life – as a prolific composer.
A significant proportion of northern Italian music of the 16th and 17th centuries was written by female composers. One of the most productive of these was the noblewoman Isabella Leonarda. She left behind around 200 compositions. The 20 volumes contain mainly sacred music, such as motets for soloists and continuo and also a mass for soloists, choir, strings and continuo.
Opus 16 is her only purely instrumental work. It consists of 12 church sonatas. These compositions were performed as part of the Catholic mass. It is one of the first instrumental compositions published by a woman. They have been published by Furore Verlag:
Sonata No. 1 for 2 violins and b.c.
and Sonata No. 12 for violin and b.c.

S O M M E R K O N Z E R T  2024 am 20.07.2024 at 20:00 h

Archöologischer Park Cambodunum ( kleine Thermen ) Kempten

with the Orchesterverein Kempten (cond. Mary Ellen Kitchens)

The Roman Emperor Hadrian (76-138) wrote this poem on his deathbed – in great fear of the grey Hades. Yet the longing for life, for beauty, for the brightness of existence was so strong that one of the most beautiful poems of this era was written in this hopeless plight. The words almost sing, the joie de vivre is physically palpable, and the language is so skilful that only approximate translations are possible that attempt to come close to the poetically playful original. The poem has remained, it has survived the ages, admired, read, quoted and passed on. The grey night of death could not erase everything, Hadrian’s “animula vagula blandula” lives on in the poem.

Concert: Swedish Chamber Orchestra plays Marie Jaëll:
Concerto pour violoncelle (1882) in Stockholm (Queen Silvia Concert Hall) with Raphaela Gromes
Marie Jaëll would probably be overjoyed to hear her cello concerto played by Raphaela Gromes. It caused a sensation at its premiere in 1882. Marie Jaëll was probably one of the first European composers of the Romantic period to incorporate impressions from America into her concerto. Julian Riem has reconstructed the second movement – Lento – and edited the concerto.
The concert is the starting point of a very special journey: During its week-long cruise through the Baltic Sea from September 5 to 14, 2024, the ship MS Europa will set sail from Stockholm’s Old Town, and this year the onboard program is dedicated to women in classical music.

At the forefront will be cellist Raphaela Gromes, who will open the exclusive concert on land in the Queen Silvia Concert Hall together with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra.

Our author Eva Rieger, professor, musicologist and author, was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on April 9. Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth presented the Federal Cross of Merit to personalities from the cultural sector at the Federal Chancellery. The Order of Merit is the highest award of the Federal Republic of Germany.
As a musicologist, Eva Rieger was one of the first to examine the social and cultural history of women in music culture.
In 1981, Eva Rieger published the groundbreaking study that laid the foundation for the investigation of the inadequate representation of female musicians in music culture. Published by Furore Verlag under the title “Frau, Musik und Männerherrschaft”, this work marked a significant milestone. Since then, Rieger has not only dealt with general studies on music education, but has also focused on gender-specific topics. Her publications range from the role of women in music history to feminist music theory, making her a prominent voice in the field. Her work has made an important contribution to raising awareness of equality for female musicians and drawing attention to the challenges they face.

The award of the Federal Cross of Merit underlines the recognition of her …

A new recording of Carmen Cârneci’s music piece “Origami with Blackbirds” (2014/16) for solo flute, presented by the Ensemble JungeMusik Berlin under the direction of Helmut Zapf, is now available on YouTube. The work has been published by Furore Verlag under the number fue 10212.
As part of Klangwerkstatt Berlin – Festival for New Music 2023, the concert “Tafelmusik und Mittagsimbiss aus Rumänien” was performed and recorded on 17.11.2023 at Kunstquartier Bethanien. Flutist Erik Drescher will play.
The Klangwerkstatt Berlin 2023 was organized by the Freundeskreis der Musikschule Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg e.V. in cooperation with the Musikschule Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.

Carmen Maria Cârneci: Origami with Blackbirds (2014/16)
Following the pattern of the song of a black bird, the third piece of the Origami cycle was composed as a continuous melody that carries characteristics such as motif and rhythmic inventiveness within the framework of an elastic tempo that allows the player a certain freedom. Made, remade, tied, untied, the many angled and asymmetrical origami-like folds create a constantly reinvented, expository music with a merely tranquil sound driven here and there by dynamic episodes. Particular attention has been paid to timbre/instrumental colors and effects, which in this piece are considered both a feature of contemporary music and a …