Events for 4. February 2023 - 10. March 2023

Fanny Hensel - „Mit den Fingern singen“ Judith Kessler, reader Elżbieta Sternlicht, piano Fanny Hensel, born Mendelssohn Bartholdy, is considered the most important composer of the 19th century and an exceptionally talented pianist. However, only her brother Felix became famous. The granddaughter of the great Enlightenment philosopher Moses Mendelssohn had to spend her short life "composing" against the resistance of her family and bourgeois etiquette, yet she left behind well over 450 works, only a fraction of which have been printed to this day. Elżbieta Sternlicht plays compositions from various creative periods of Fanny Hensel as well as Felix and Arnold Mendelssohn, which Judith Kessler classifies textually along her life story and the events in Berlin society of the time. Tickets

„Die Kompromisslosen“ Works by Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) and Amy Beach (1867-1944) Despite prohibitions for private or political reasons, these two great women composers never gave up composing. For the American Amy Beach (1867-1944), only a life as a musician was ever in question. And as America's first woman, she campaigned for women's suffrage. Meet Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), the first woman in Poland to achieve international fame as a composer. Despite socialist censorship or difficulties in a conservative society, she composed a diverse oeuvre with "inexhaustible inventiveness." Program: Fanny Hensel: Romance (from String Quartet in E-flat major) Grazyna Bacewicz: String Quartet No. 4 (1909-1969) Amy Beach: Piano quintet op. 67 Szymanowski – Quartet Agata Szymczewska, Violin Kana Sugimura, Violin Volodia Mykytka, Viola Karol Marianowski, Violoncello Katharina Sellheim, piano Concert introduction: Julia Meyer-Hermann More Information