Voucher campaign for all customers
For the 35th anniversary, we are launching a voucher campaign – a little thank-you-gift for our customers:
The first 35 customers who order goods with a minimum value 20 euros via our webshop from Saturday, July 17th 2021, 10 a.m., will receive a voucher worth 10 euros for their next order. The voucher promotion code will be sent with the order. No cash payment possible.
Furore Verlag: Music by women composers
We have created an image film: The fast-paced exuberant Scherzo from the symphony in F minor by Emilie Mayer accompanies the new image film with which the Furore Verlag Kassel is now ringing in its anniversary: A successful symphony of images and music that inspires and arouses anticipation a new musical experience – after Corona.
A great orchestral project with Goethe songs by Jeanette Bürde, Annette Droste-Hülshoff, ´Helene Liebmann, Elise Müller, Josefine Lang, Fanny Hensel and Johanna Kinkel, arranged for orchestra by Wolfgang Danzmayr, will be presented in Salzburg on Saturday, May 29, 2021:
The journey is the goal: Orchester-Galerie 21/10. SIT-IN
Sat., May 29, 2021, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m., 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. & 2.30 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. public rehearsals
Marcia Sacha, soprano, orchestral project 21 and Wolfgang Danzmayr, artistic direction & moderation
In the motto “The path is the goal” there is the wisdom that the development of songs and orchestral pieces in the morning and afternoon rehearsals of the 10th SIT-IN is the focus of this project idea. It is also very important to us to revive works by women composers. Our rehearsals can be watched in silence …
Visions Nocturnes won the 1st prize in the international composition competition “Emotion” (organized in 2019 by the Friends of the Archive of Women and Music and the Center for Military Music of the Bundeswehr). The Belgian woodwind quintet Ensemble timber trade (Houthandel) has rehearsed the work and discovered ” beautiful composition that is definitely worth including in the professional wind quintet repertoire.”
“Visions Nocturnes shows a rich palette of timbres in which the uniqueness of the different woodwinds comes into its own. The piece is a very well composed composition. Ensemble Hauthandel felt immediately invited to deepen the piece – even more than intended in the score: more rubato, more dynamism, more development. It takes some work, but the score reads rather briefly in indications of tempi and dynamic notation. After all, nocturnal visions can have all sorts of faces: from calm and peaceful to ecstatic and disturbing.
In any case, Valerie Knabe (* 1988) from Luxembourg shows herself to be a promising young composer with Visionen Nocturnes, and we can look forward to the further development of her oeuvre.” Ensemble Houthandel in: de Klarinet 2021, Nr. 133, S. 28
said the President of the United Nations Chamber Music, Brenda Vongova!
Brenda Vongova
President
UN Chamber Music Society
of the United Nations Staff Recreation Council
The Oviedo Filarmonia under the conductor Isabel Rubio will perform at the Teatro Campoamor, Oviedo on March 17 under the title MUJERES EN MÚSICA the Ouverture C-Dur of Fanny Hensel.
On March 25, 2021 Mel Bonis: Suite en forme de valses can be heard in Finland. In the Carelia hall in Joensuu the Joensuun kaupunginorkesteri (Joensuu City Orchestra) will play with the conductor Eero Lehtimäki.
Michelle Pauline Viardot-García, née García, (* July 18, 1821 in Paris; † May 18, 1910 there) was one of the most famous and versatile artists of the 19th century. In the second half of the 19th century she had a major influence on the musical life of her time in various countries, above all in France, Germany, England and Russia. She sang, composed and taught, she arranged and edited works by other composers, collected folk song texts and melodies, organized musical salons and also conducted extensive correspondence.
In addition to her training as a composer under the direction of Anton Reicha, the young Pauline García felt “irresistibly” drawn to the piano. Her playing and her compositions were very much appreciated by her teacher Franz Liszt. She speaks six languages fluently. From 1863 she settles in Baden-Baden with her husband and four children. Musicians, poets, painters and other important personalities of their time met in their domicile there, which in addition to a villa also included a garden theater and an art and lecture hall.
In Baden-Baden, Pauline mainly devotes herself to composition and draws inspiration from Russian poetry under the influence of Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883). She had met Russian poets …
* January 21st, 1858 in Paris † March 18th, 1937 in Paris
Encounter with music between agony and lust
The French composer Mel Bonis (1858–1937)
The example of the French composer Mel Bonis makes it clear that even today – in a time of intensive research into past musical epochs – one can still occasionally make surprising discoveries. This composer is one of the creative musical personalities of the turn of the century, whose compositions fell victim to the storms of the musical stylistic upheaval at the time and disappeared from the consciousness of the music scene.
Raised in a middle-class Parisian family far removed from music, the musically gifted Mélanie was able to attend the Conservatoire Supérieur through the intercession of César Franck, which she had to leave after a few years at the behest of her parents in order to end the relationship with a fellow student. A little later she married the industrialist Albert Domange, 22 years her senior, who brought five sons into the marriage, gave birth to three children of his own and gave birth to an illegitimate daughter in 1899, unnoticed by the family – a conflict that may be a trigger for allows her most fruitful creative …