Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas

am 22.02.2018, 19:30
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Exciting in affable conversation – competence in the Lower Bavarian tone. Siegfried Mauser’s conversation concerts are famous, as entertaining as they are enlightening for piano enthusiasts; Listening to analyzes by the musicologist and experiencing the pianist Mauser immediately after the implementation of what has just been said is always an event.

Thanks to the Beethoven series at the famous Blaibach Concert Hall, the Bayreuth audience will enjoy a piano recital as an offshoot of the program there. Mauser this evening: No. 5 (op. 10 No. 1) locates three cesars within Beethoven’s gigantic piano sonata work: the first of the C minor sonatas, probably marks the change to a middle phase of his creative career with the “overlong” 4th Sonata had completed his early work.

Beethoven himself marks another turning point with the words “I am not satisfied with my work so far, from now on I want to follow a different path” – the “Sturm” Sonata (No. 17 in D minor, op. 31 no. 2) ) belongs to this new way of the now 32-year-old composer. Op. 110 belongs as a middle “part” of the famous triad of sonatas 30-32 anyway the cult in the piano heaven with which the genius in 1822, drawn from illnesses completed his great sonata work.

Siegfried Mauser is a musicologist, publisher and concert pianist; he was professor for piano, chamber music and musicology at the universities of Würzburg, Munich (where he also founded an institute for musical hermeneutics) and the Mozarteum Salzburg. Siegfried Mauser has received many awards, including with the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art (2009), the German Federal Cross of Merit on the Band (2010), and the Bavarian Maximilian Order (2012). Since 1990 he is a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, since 2002 also director of the local music department. From 1988 to 2014 he also worked as artistic adviser to the City of Munich (Biennale).