The 20th International Viola d’amore Congress will take place from June 5th to 12th, 2022 at the Rheinsberg Music Academy in Brandenburg, Germany with concerts and lectures and workshops. The german premiere of Florentine Mulsant: Prélude et Danse pour Viole d‘Amour op. 101 will be part of it. More information here.
We are pleased to host today’s network meeting of the Börsenverein:
The Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels – Landesverband Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland e.V., together with the Hessischer Literaturrat and the publishers euregioverlag, Pan, Merseburger and Furore, is organising a networking meeting for North Hessian book-related organisations on 5 April from 6 pm.
The theme of the meeting is cooperation. Whether for events, media work, purchasing/sales, as a sparring partner for controlling or simply as a second opinion – strategic cooperation raises synergies. Cooperation bundles resources, strengthens capacities and leads to more attention from clients.
Corona has made it difficult for new cooperations to emerge. Together with the Börsenverein and participating companies, we are looking forward to this evening!
On 19 March 2022, the German Society for the Flute (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Flöte e.V.) will hold the “Flute Day Kassel 2022” at the Music Academy of the City of Kassel “Louis Spohr”. Lectures and courses will be offered from 10:30 am. At 14h there will be a concert by the flute group of the Staatstheater Kassel. The event ends with the final concert at 18h. Furore Verlag will be exhibiting its editions of music for the flute.
Further Information
Registration
We are very much looking forward to it and cordially invite you to visit us and attend the concerts!
The gifted song composer Josephine Lang was born on March 14, 1815 in Munich into a family of musicians. Her encounter with the 21-year-old Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in 1830 was a turning point in her artistic development. She recalled, “Meeting this Master brought about a complete transformation in my being. His spirit brought me light, his work gave me an ideal.” Mendelssohn had the idea that Josephine Lang should come to his parents’ house in Berlin to receive piano lessons from his sister Fanny and composition lessons from Friedrich Zelter. But the father couldn’t bring himself to let his daughter go. Nevertheless, Felix Mendelssohn remained a model for the 16-year-old composer on the path to musical maturity. In the 1830s Mendelssohn expanded their musical circles and increased their productivity. Josephine Lang published at least five collections of songs between 1834 and 1838 and was recognized in the Neue Zeitung für Musik. Concerts on a larger scale took place. Josephine Lang was a versatile composer, stylistically somewhere between Mendelssohn and Schumann.
International Women’s Day originated in the struggle for equal rights and the right to vote for women and was first initiated by the social democrat Clara Zetkin on 19 March 1911. Millions of women from several countries demonstrated publicly on that day with the battle cry “Out with women’s suffrage!” for equal pay and a right to co-determination. In 1921, Women’s Day was moved to 8 March at Zetkin’s request, because on 8 March 1917 women textile workers in St Petersburg had gone on strike under the slogan “Peace and Bread!”, thus making the day globally significant.
International Women’s Day is a public holiday in 26 countries around the world. Within Germany, only in the federal state of Berlin – since 2019.
In keeping with Women’s Day, Furore Verlag has published four volumes of the series “Mund auf statt Klappe zu” (“Shout up with your song! Songs from the Women’s Movement”) in recent years, in which songs of the international women’s movement from different epochs and countries have been published.
The history of the women’s movement includes numerous songs that musically underpinned and loudly expressed demands for equal rights, appropriate working conditions, political and social participation, self-determination …
We would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to a great podcast: “Achtung Komponistin” by Johannes Fritsche!
Extremely worth listening to, the lives and works of eight female composers are presented. On January 23, the podcast about Margarete Schweikert was released. So far, six more episodes have been released, on Ethel Smyth, Luise Greger, Cécile Chaminade, Martha von Sabinin, Florence Price and Henriëtte Bosmans.
You can listen to the episodes on the Internet page, where you will also find many interesting further links.
We are already very excited about the conclusion of the series and at the same time hope more episodes may appear!
You can also listen to the episodes via Spotify and Apple Podcast.
We hope you enjoy listening and have a great time!
We are very pleased about this and recommend that you tune in!
On 23.01. at 20.03 the Deutschlandfunk will broadcast the concert recording of the Philharmonic Orchestra Bremerhaven.
Our composers Mel Bonis, Louise Farrenc and Alma Mahler are represented with the following pieces:
Mel Bonis: Trois femmes de légende
Alma Mahler: Songs
Louise Farrenc: Symphony No. 1 in C minor op. 32 …
“Without a doubt, Fanny Hensel was the most important composer of the 19th century.” (MGG, Vol. 16)
2022 will mark the 175th anniversary of her death. This was reason enough for us to dedicate our own website to Fanny Hensel. Under fannyhensel.de, we have compiled information about her life and work, about concerts and current topics. Here you can find all her works published by Furore.
We are very pleased that google also commemorates Fanny Hensel with a doodle.