The Liedstadt Hamburg festival honors Ruth Schonthal:
We get to know the Hamburg composer Ruth Schonthal together and celebrate her 100th birthday.
“Different cultures have shaped my music” – we introduce the pioneer with songs and a sounding diary.”
No fear of Ruth Schönthal
19:00 (CET)
23 Sep, 2024
KörberForum, Hamburg
with Julian Prégardien, Marlene Heiß, Dr. Rafael Rennicke
In 2025, the 220th 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.
The professor of music theory at the New Vienna Conservatory wrote the exciting String Quintet in A minor around 1909. It is a masterpiece of late Romanticism in four movements that range from light-hearted, cheerful and playful to turbulent. It leaves a very strong impression. We recommend it to all (semi)-professional string quintets.
The editor Michael Goldbach has carefully edited the work according to the source (Austrian National Library): With a preface and a revision report.
The sacred music of Mel Bonis (1858–1937) or elevation through music Mel Bonis, pseudonym for Mélanie Bonis (1858–1937), was one of the few French composers of her time who left posterity an extensive musical work. The Parisian from a modest middle-class background attended the conservatory in the same classes as Debussy and Pierné. Her teachers, Ernest Guiraud and Louis Auguste Bazille in the harmony, piano accompaniment and composition classes, praised her highly. She attended César Franck’s organ lessons as a guest student. “She was so good at Gregorian chant that she was presented as an example to foreign students who sometimes attended the lessons.” A complete edition of Mel Bonis’s sacred music has now been published in five volumes by Furore Verlag: motets for four-part mixed choir, motets for two- and three-part choir, mass, Cantique de Jean Racine, sacred and Christmas songs.
Vol. 1: Motets for Choir (SATB)
O salutaris, op. 131, Adoro te, op. 150-1, Inviolata, op. 163, Ave verum, op. 166-1, Tantum ergo, op. 167
Vol. 2: Motetten für 2- oder 3-st. Chor
Regina cœli, op. 45, Sub tuum, op. 132, Salve Regina, op. 169, Panis angelicus, op. 145, Ave …
PAN. Magazine of the British Flute society
Emilie Mayer: Sonate for flute and piano
“Composed in Romantic style, there is a clear influence of Beethoven in the
writing, and the piano part features rich chords and textual variation.
The score and part are well presented with careful placement
of page turns. This is a useful addition to the flute’s Romantic
repertoire, which would be ideal for students making their first
steps into relatively large-scale works from this era.”
CARLA REES
the edition here: fue 10379
more about the pan here
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 …