Chamber Music Master Class 2022

12 - 16 November 2022

Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier runs like a thread through the concert programme this season. concert programme. Andreas Staier, a specialist for historical keyboard instruments and honorary member of the and honorary member of the Beethoven-Haus Society, will focus on this important work in his important work in his master class. With his students, however, he also concentrates on compositions by Beethoven with a Bach connection and takes up works by Beethoven's contemporaries who were also who were also influenced by Bach (Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Anton Reicha, Nikolaus von Krufft). Three different pianos are used for the course pianos will be used for the course: the modern Steinway grand, the 1823 Graf grand from the museum from the museum and another historical fortepiano. In this way, participants and audience can experience how the tonal development of keyboard instruments affects the interpretation and interpretation and reception of a work.

Scientific support: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Wollny, Director of the Bach-Archiv Leipzig, and Dr. Julia Ronge, Custodian of the Beethoven-Haus (source study).

Sponsored by: The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media