Our new newsletter
In this newsletter you will find new editions of sheet music as well as tips for nice gifts for Christmas.
Have fun discovering them!
Warm invitation to the open day!
On Saturday, December 3, 2022 from 14:00-19:00 we will host an Open House in our warehouse/concert hall at Philippistraße 17, 34127 Kassel with readings, music and plenty of time to browse.
Program:
14h Music: Anne Ringborg, bassoon and und Barbara Gabler, piano
15h Reading: Udo Schlitzberger/Klaus Fröhlich: The Celts in Northern Hesse,
16h Music: Regine Brunke, violoncello
17h Reading: Christina Hein: Stolpersteine in Kassel
Also for the physical well-being is provided:
From 2 to 4 p.m. there will be coffee and cake, then from 5 p.m. bratwurst and beer.
You can expect sheet music editions by women composers from all over the world, competent and individual advice and beautiful Christmas gifts.
We look forward to seeing you!
Happy Birthday Fanny
Fanny Hensel geb. Mendelssohn
née 14.11.1805 in Hamburg, died on 14.5.1847 in Berlin
“Without a doubt, Fanny Hensel was the most important composer of the 19th century.” (MGG, Vol. 16)
Fanny Hensel grew up in a well-off and educated Berlin family. Early on, the banker Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy and his wife Lea also recognized Fanny’s extraordinary musical talent, so that Fanny, like her brother Felix, was taught by the best accessible teachers. Abraham Mendelssohn engaged Carl Friedrich Zelter, director of the Berliner Singakademie and friend of Goethe, for training in music theory and composition. Soon Fanny was known among the Mendelssohns’ circle of friends and acquaintances not only as an outstanding pianist, but also as a composer of songs and piano pieces.
In his obituary, published shortly after Fanny’s sudden death, the Berlin music critic Ludwig Rellstab writes that she shared with her famous brother “also the sisterhood of talent” and “reached a degree of education in music that not many artists for whom art is their exclusive …
We exhibit: at “Tage Alter Musik” in Herne from 10 to 13 November 2022
In 1976, at the suggestion of Joachim Hengelhaupt, then Herne’s city director and head of the department of culture, instrument makers, scholars and early music enthusiasts met for the first time. Since then, the Early Music Days in Herne have developed into one of the most important and unique music festivals. Since 1980, the events have been held in cooperation with Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne, which broadcasts numerous concerts live in its third program. The “Tage Alter Musik” in Herne is an internationally oriented festival, which attracts artists from all over Europe. In 2022, the “Tage Alter Musik” in Herne will take place from November 10 to 13.
Barbara Heller celebrates her birthday: A life for music
Composer Barbara Heller celebrates her 86th birthday on November 6, 2022.
Barbara Heller’s language is music. She formulates everything in notes: thoughts, notes, letters, diaries. Born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein in 1936, the composer has spent her life trying to bring image and music together. In her parental home she was less interested in music than in the visual arts. Her father was a church art restorer and “Heller church painting” was well known in Ludwigshafen for generations. Barbara Heller studied music in Mannheim and Munich, and from 1958 to 1962 she taught piano at the Mannheim Music Academy.
In 2019 she received the Darmstadt Music Prize.
One focus of Barbara Heller’s work is piano music. She writes a large number of works for piano lessons, which, in addition to technical skills, also aim to convey general musical knowledge. The fun of playing comes first, in addition there is ample but unobtrusive opportunity for learning. Barbara Heller’s piano pieces should not only be interpreted simply. While “playing” the students also learn how to creatively deal with the music and to do experiments. Many pieces encourage you to change them according to your …
Mélanie Bonis: Piano Quartet No. 1 as Music Piece of the Week
Mélanie Bonis: Piano Quartet No. 1, performed by Clémence de Forceville, Léa Hennino, Benedict Kloeckner and Adam Laloum as Music Piece of the Week
Mel Bonis’ quartet in B flat is certainly the work to which she devoted herself with the greatest passion. This work, which lasts about 25 minutes, calls for great effort by skilled musicians. It is composed of four movements – Moderato – Intermezzo – Andante – Finale. Allegro ma non troppo. It is difficult to say what is most admirable about this work – the beauty of its melodies, the originality of the harmonic inventions or the composer’s skill – and that from the first movement.
Here you can buy the music publication.
Furore on the 6. International Flute Congress in Aix-en-Provence in France
The 6. International Flute Congress to take place from 26 to 30 October 2022 in Aix-en-Provence in France. Four intensive days with concerts, master classes, conferences, workshops, Exhibitions and many other activities await the participants. At October 29th at 3:30 p.m., the flute works of Florentine Mulsant will be on the concert program. Furore Verlag presents flute works by female composers on all four days.
More info: here
Furore at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2022!
Visit us at the Frankfurt Book Fair!
In October, the Frankfurt Book Fair will once again be the meeting place for the international publishing industry. Furore Verlag will be exhibiting there at the Hessian joint stand “Literature in Hessen” in Hall 3.1 at booth D106. The Frankfurt Book Fair is open daily from Wednesday, October 19, to Sunday, October 23, from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Sunday until 5:30 p.m.. Trade visitor days are Wednesday to Friday. We look forward to your visit.
Music of great female composers at the Winsen Chamber Music Festival
On Wednesday, September 14, the Chamber Music Festival starts in Winsen, this year under the motto “Music of great women composers”. Emilie Mayer, Louise Farrenc, Mel Bonis, Fanny Hensel, Clara Schumann – many female composers of our house are represented.
We are looking forward to days full of music on a high level!
Concert series “Eurasian Flow” by and with Viktoria Kaunzner
Eurasian Flow: Viktoria & Virtuosi – 30 exquisite young musicians from 10 nations play Tango, Mozart & Modern Music
“Eurasian Flow”, performed by Viktoria & Virtuosi, is an atmospheric program full of drive and noblesse. Walking on the Silk Road, a fascinating cosmos of familiar and exotic sound worlds is fanned out in a common dialogue. Tango, Mozart & modernity are inspiringly interwoven. The internationally renowned violin soloist and composer Viktoria Elisabeth Kaunzner from Berlin, who is appreciated for her artistic esprit and beautiful, changeable sound, creates this flow on stage with her 30 exquisite young colleagues from over ten nations. Thus, next to the passionate tango violin concerto by the Argentine composer Claudia Montero, another work of this genre joins in: Violeta Dinescu dedicated to Viktoria her finely chiseled, equally energetically exalted sound narrative “Roman Fleuve”. Here, resonant spaces are created for insights from dream research, improvisation and performance in the narrative style of a French literary genre already used by Marcel Proust. The calligraphed music manuscript is projected on the wall during the performance, transporting the audience into a cinematic space. Viktoria’s music, “Saiga Antelope,” is a cleverly arranged combination of documentary silent fi lm and live music about …