Past exhibition

An exhibition by the Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel

In the 20th and 21st centuries, the productive examination of Beethoven's oeuvre, person and myth is characterised by a diversity that seems inexhaustible. Numerous composers from Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern and Alberto Ginastera to Mauricio Kagel, Christóbal Halffter, Helmut Lachenmann, Dieter Schnebel and György Kurtág, to name but a few, have repeatedly referred to Beethoven in their work. The Paul Sacher Foundation uses music and text manuscripts, audio and photographic documents to show the diversity of Beethoven's musical reception. Not least, this makes it clear: Beethoven challenges us - even today.

Accompanying the special exhibition:

Catalogue

Concert 25 August 
Concert 27 September

Curator tours: 
27. September
30 September
2 October

Online tour
With the curators Dr Felix Meyer, Director of the Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel, and Dr Simon Obert, scholar of the Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel 

Digital opening concert
The concert follows the four-part structure of the exhibition, which highlights some aspects of Beethoven's reception in the new music of the 20th and 21st centuries and illuminates the thematic fields of "Learning and Teaching with Beethoven", "Idealisations", "Strategies of Referencing" as well as "Alienation - Disassembly".

Henry Brant (1913–2008) | Bearbeitung der Hammerklavier-Sonate op. 106 für Streichquartett (ca. 1935), 1. Satz, "Allegro" 
Charles Ives (1874-1954) | Klaviersonate Nr. 2 ("Concord, Mass., 1840–60") (ca. 1915–19), 3. Satz ("The Alcotts")  
Jürg Wyttenbach (*1935) | Auskomponierte Skizzen zur Klaviersonate op. 109 (2005–06), "Thema“ und "Variationen 5a und 5b" 
Heinz Holliger (*1939) | 75 Variationen über die Variationen 5a und 5b von Ludwytt Beetenbach für Klavier (2010)  
Igor Strawinsky (1882–1971) | Souvenir d’une marche boche für Klavier (1915)  

Ensemble Musikfabrik: 
Benjamin Kobler, piano  
Sara Cubarsi, violin  
Hannah Weirich, violin  
Axel Porath, viola  
Dirk Wietheger, violoncello