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- Fabian Müller, piano
'There are 32 pieces, and no two of them are alike. Every moment is new and exciting - I find that incredible.'
- Fabian Müller
- Fabian Müller, Bagatellen
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Klaviersonate Nr. 15 D-Dur op. 28 "Pastorale"
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Klaviersonate Nr. 3 C-Dur op. 2/3
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Klaviersonate Nr. 24 Fis-Dur op. 78
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Klaviersonate Nr. 30 E-Dur op. 109
- Javus Quartett
- Marie-Therese Schwöllinger, violin
- Alexandra Moser, violin
- Marvin Stark, viola
- Oscar Hagen, violoncello
The Javus Quartet is 'in the process of developing its very own artistic signature'. This was the verdict of the jury for the Jürgen Ponto Music Prize, which will be presented to the young Austrian-German ensemble at the concert. The programme is also artistically exciting: Haydn's theatrical and large-scale 'Sunrise' quartet and Beethoven's op. 132, two repertoire milestones, meet a new discovery by Hans Gál.
Gál, born into a Jewish-Hungarian family in Austria in 1890, quickly made a name for himself as a pianist in pre-war Vienna, studied composition and was awarded prestigious professorships. However, the National Socialists interrupted his career and Gál fled into exile in Edinburgh. There he established himself as a university professor, but was unable to build on the compositional successes of the 1920s. His music is in the late Romantic tradition of Brahms and Strauss. The early string quartet from 1916, revived by the Javus Quartet, demonstrates his masterful craftsmanship. The restless scherzo and the slow movement, whose brittle lament is reminiscent of Schönberg's early, still tonal chamber music, sound both modern and traditional at the same time.
In co-operation with the Jürgen Ponto Foundation
- Joseph Haydn, Streichquartett B-Dur op. 76/4 'Der Sonnenaufgang'
- Hans Gál, Streichquartett Nr. 1 f-Moll op. 16
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Streichquartett Nr. 15 a-Moll op. 132
- Filip Zaykov, violin
- Julia Kleinsmann, violin
- Nir Rom, viola
- Sofia von Freydorf, violoncello
- Maria Franz, violoncello
- Raphael Blume, recitation
Music becomes literature, literature becomes music again: Beethoven's 9th Violin Sonata – the 'Kreutzer Sonata' – inspired Tolstoy's novella of the same name, which in turn inspired Leoš Janáček to compose his expressive String Quartet No. 1. In this concert, part of the 4th Young Artists Festival Bonn, all three levels come together: the sonata in a rarely heard anonymous arrangement for string quintet, Janáček's musical adaptation of the literary source – and excerpts from Tolstoy's text itself. A thrilling reflection on art, eros and obsession – told in music and words.
Tickets: €23 | €17
Available at: YAF.bonn@gmail.com
- Tanja Tetzlaff, violoncello
- Kiveli Dörken, piano
- Dr. Suzanna Randall, astrophysicist
Cellist Tanja Tetzlaff sees her musical work as a contribution to greater mindfulness and respect for nature. The pieces in today's dialogue concert, in which she is accompanied by the German-Greek pianist Kiveli Dörken, reflect this attitude. Astrophysicist, budding astronaut and ZDF presenter Suzanna Randall looks at the earth and its endangered resources from a different perspective. Together they shed light on incontrovertible facts and our responsibility for the planet.
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Cellosonate C-Dur op. 102/1
- Thorsten Encke, "Black ice" für Violoncello solo und Tonband
- Diana Syrse, Fuego negro
- Henriëtte Bosmans, Cellosonate
- Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg, piano and poetry
- Sophia Burgos, soprano and live electronics
- Kerstin Claus, Journalistin und Unabhängige Beauftragte für Fragen des sexuellen Kindesmissbrauchs
- Prof. Lydia Grün, Präsidentin der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München
- Prof. Dr. Jörg Fegert, Universität Ulm, Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie/Psychotherapie
- Barbara Stach, Moderation | Beethovenfest Bonn
Abuse of power, sexual violence and a lack of attentiveness can be found in the music business, but also in the repertoire itself: All of this is more or less clearly thematised in some of the best-known art songs. The song and discussion evening aims to focus on this. The pianist and lyricist Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg will organise it with the soprano Sophia Burgos - also against the backdrop of his own experience of abuse, which he dealt with in his long poem 'wiedergutmachungsjude'. Art songs alternate with electronically altered improvisations by Sophia Burgos, which take up lines from Gerzenberg's book. The Berlin composer Hector Docx will set a section of the same text to music, which will be premiered on this evening. After the concert, a high-calibre panel will discuss the abuse of power and lack of mindfulness in classical music, topics that are only gradually coming to the fore.
The concert is part of the Beethovenfest Bonn's ‘Inside Artists’ project, funded by the Liz Mohn Foundation and 'tuned - Netzwerk für zeitgenössische Klassik' of the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
- Franz Schubert, Heidenröslein D 257
- Franz Schubert, Lied der Mignon: Nur der wer die Sehnsucht kennt D 877
- Franz Schubert, Erlkönig D 328
- Hugo Wolf, Ganymed
- Hugo Wolf, Lied der Mignon: So lasst mich scheinen
- Hector Docx, "sometimes" Uraufführung
- Sophia Burgos, Humming
- Im Wechsel mit Lesungen aus Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg: "wiedergutmachungsjude" mit Improvisationen von Sophia Burgos
- Im Anschluss Podiumsdiskussion
Join us on a musical journey to the Beethoven-Haus. We will explore the museum and play lively songs and famous Beethoven melodies on the ukulele. Of course, the beloved 'Elise' cannot be left out. We will also do crafts, chat and sing.
Musical director: Ayham Nabuti
Registration until 18 September: museum@beethoven.de
- Michael Obst, mentoring and moderation
- Christoph Baumgarten, composer
- Carlotta Rabea Joachim, composer
Please note the changed start time. Start at 7:00 pm instead of 6:00 pm.
Christoph Baumgarten (*2000 in Halle/Saale) studied composition in Weimar with Michael Obst and Ulrich Kreppein. He is currently studying in Leipzig with Fabien Lévy. He has received further inspiration from Malika Kishino, Gordon Kampe, Jay Schwartz and, as part of the Lucerne Festival, Unsuk Chin and Dieter Ammann. He is a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. In recent years, he has composed several works for various instrumentations, which have been performed by performers such as the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra, the IEMA, the Ensemble ascolta and the Ensemble Modern.
He is expected to present a composition for trumpet, violoncello and piano.
Carlotta Rabea Joachim (*1995 Ruhrgebiet) studied violin and composition (junior studies, bachelor's, master's, masterclass) in Detmold, Essen, Lucerne and Munich with Dieter Ammann and Moritz Eggert, among others. She was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. Her works have been performed in Europe, the USA and South America, including by the Scharoun Ensemble, the Modern Art Ensemble and the National Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Prague. She wrote her first stage work Betterplazes for the Neukölln Opera. Together with the Holst-Sinfonietta, she founded the Freiburg Composition Workshop for young people. She has led various workshops in the fields of composition and music education at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, worked as a concert and music theatre dramaturge at the Münster Theatre and taught music education at the University of Marburg.
She is expected to present a composition for violin, percussion, piano and baritone.
In co-operation with the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
- Christoph Baumgarten, piece for trumpet, violoncello and piano
- Carlotta Rabea Joachim, piece for violin, percussion, piano and baritone
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Carlotta Rabea Joachim: Fotostudio Monbijpu Berlin
Christoph Baumgarten: Romeo Wecks
Free admission
Admission free
Registration by email to avenarius@studienstiftung.de with subject 'Final concert of the composition residency 20 September 2025'
Donations for the work of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes welcome
- Veriko Tchumburidze, violin
- Anastasia Kobekina, violoncello
- Alexey Botvinov, piano
Russian cellist Anastasia Kobekina's residency finale in piano trio formation: Bohemian ballads of mourning by Dvořák, a melancholy rhapsody by the eighteen-year-old Rachmaninov and the pensive music of the most important Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov.
- Valentin Silvestrov, "Moments of Memory – V". Klaviertrio in sieben Sätzen (Deutsche Erstaufführung)
- Sergei Rachmaninow, "Trio élégiaque" Nr. 1 g-Moll
- Antonín Dvořák, Klaviertrio Nr. 4 e-Moll op. 90 "Dumky-Trio"
- Jerusalem Quartet
- Alexander Pavlovsky, violin
- Sergei Bresler, violin
- Ori Kam, viola
- Kyril Zlotnikov, violoncello
In the fourth concert of the Jerusalem Quartet's Shostakovich series, Quartet No. 13 occupies a key position: desolate hopelessness has rarely been captured in music like this.
The fourth part of the cycle with the Jerusalem Quartet begins with String Quartet No. 3, in which Shostakovich offers one of his typical dance persiflage. In it, he seems to ridicule all the constraints of his life under the Soviet regime. The thirteenth quartet turns inwards as a one-movement meditation and reveals a desperate landscape of the soul. Dedicated to a violist friend, it ends with one of the most difficult viola solos in the highest register, the last note of which swells from deepest resignation to a final cry. The penultimate quartet, No. 14, concludes with its austere tonal language.
- Dmitri Schostakowitsch, Streichquartett Nr. 3 F-Dur op. 73
- Dmitri Schostakowitsch, Streichquartett Nr. 13 b-Moll op. 138
- Dmitri Schostakowitsch, Streichquartett Nr. 14 Fis-Dur op. 142
- Busch Trio
- Mathieu van Bellen, violin
- Ori Epstein, violoncello
- Omri Epstein, piano
The ultimate in piano trios: Tchaikovsky's 45-minute monument to his deceased friend and mentor Nikolai Rubinstein overwhelms with its epic power and deep sadness. But the cheerful side of the great Russian musician also shines through. With this work, Tchaikovsky established the Russian tradition of writing piano trios for deceased colleagues, as Rachmaninov later did for him.
The Busch Trio with the Epstein brothers and violin virtuoso Mathieu van Bellen, who has drawn attention to himself with entire opera adaptations for the violin, inspire with their confident stylistic confidence - also in this varied programme. They begin with Beethoven's 'Ghost Trio', which had a decisive influence on the genre. George Walker, the first African-American Pulitzer Prize winner for music, created a trio in 1972 that unfolds an exciting interplay with harsh fragments of sound.
Concert recording by Deutschlandfunk Kultur
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Klaviertrio D-Dur op. 70/1 "Geistertrio"
- George Walker, "Music for Three"
- Peter Tschaikowsky, Klaviertrio a-Moll op. 50 "À la mémoire d’un grand artiste"
Abends haben wir den Garten und das Museum für uns ganz allein und mutige Kinder ab 7 Jahren gehen auf Entdeckungsreise auf der Suche nach Schatten und Tönen aus Beethovens Zeit.
Teilnahmebeitrag: € 17, Geschwisterermäßigung
Anmeldung erforderlich unter museum@beethoven.de
- Camilla Köhnken, fortepiano
A unique series of concerts in the Beethoven House Museum brings the historical keyboard instruments from the museum's collection to life. Listeners can experience the sound ideals of Beethoven's time at first hand and learn about the special features of the instruments as the pianists explain them.
The concerts last around 40 minutes and take place in the museum's music room. The room is not air-conditioned.
Concert tickets at a price of € 8 (plus admission to the museum) are available at the shop ticket office (always from the Monday before the event). This offer is aimed at individual visitors to the museum.
With members of the Chamber Orchestra Unter den Linden Berlin and Gustav Frielinghaus, solo violin
With members of the Chamber Orchestra Unter den Linden Berlin and Gustav Frielinghaus, solo violin
With members of the Chamber Orchestra Unter den Linden Berlin and Gustav Frielinghaus, solo violin
- Juin Lee, fortepiano
A unique series of concerts in the Beethoven House Museum brings the historical keyboard instruments from the museum's collection to life. Listeners can experience the sound ideals of Beethoven's time at first hand and learn about the special features of the instruments as the pianists explain them.
The concerts last around 40 minutes and take place in the museum's music room. The room is not air-conditioned.
Concert tickets at a price of € 8 (plus admission to the museum) are available at the shop ticket office (always from the Monday before the event). This offer is aimed at individual visitors to the museum.
- Bernadette Pihusch, violin
- Elisabeth Gühring, violin
- Marc Strokov, violoncello
- Sebastian Rauch, piano
Since the Beethoven anniversary year 2020, the 'Jugend musiziert' competition has awarded the Hermann J. Abs Prize for the best interpretation of a work by Ludwig van Beethoven. The prize is awarded by the respective national jury. The prize includes a concert performance of the competition programme in the Chamber Music Hall.
With the kind support of the Hermann J. Abs Foundation
"Dunkel war's der Mond schien helle…" Mit einem neuen Programm geistern wir wieder durch das Beethoven-Haus - natürlich im Dunkeln und nur mit einer Taschenlampe ausgestattet, auf der Suche nach Schatten und Tönen aus Beethovens Zeit.
Teilnahmebeitrag: € 17, Geschwisterermäßigung
Anmeldung erforderlich unter museum@beethoven.de
- Aaron Pilsan, piano
The selection made by Artist in Residence Aaron Pilsan allows the entire spectrum of Beethoven's oeuvre to be experienced - from the elegance of the early works to the visionary darkness of the middle phase and the transcendent clarity of his late works.
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Klaviersonate op. 14, Nr. 1 E-Dur
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Klaviersonate cis-Moll op. 27 Nr. 2 "Mondschein"
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Klaviersonate c-Moll op. 111
- Aaron Pilsan, piano | Artist in Residence
The selection made by Artist in Residence Aaron Pilsan allows the entire range of Beethoven's oeuvre to be experienced - from the elegance of the early works to the visionary darkness of the middle phase and the transcendent clarity of his late works.
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Klaviersonate op. 14, Nr. 1 E-Dur
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Klaviersonate cis-Moll op. 27,2 "Mondschein"
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Klaviersonate c-Moll op. 111
- Arash Rokni, fortepiano
A unique series of concerts in the Beethoven House Museum brings the historical keyboard instruments from the museum's collection to life. Listeners can experience the sound ideals of Beethoven's time at first hand and learn about the special features of the instruments as the pianists explain them.
The concerts last around 40 minutes and take place in the museum's music room. The room is not air-conditioned.
Concert tickets at a price of € 8 (plus admission to the museum) are available at the shop ticket office (always from the Monday before the event). This offer is aimed at individual visitors to the museum.
- Michael Donak, bandoneon
- Arsen Zorayan, violin
- Hamburg Stage Ensemble
The Hamburg Stage Ensemble is made up of young, highly qualified instrumentalists who together pursue the vision of not only playing music, but also communicating it. The joy of playing together takes centre stage. The small ensemble and the conscious decision not to have a conductor means that the audience can participate directly in the concert.
Once again, violinist Arsen Zorayan will be the soloist and artistic director, and once again the audience will be taken on a journey through the four seasons - but this time the composer is not Antonio Vivaldi, but Astor Piazzolla. Multifaceted, exhilarating tangos and ballads by Piazzolla and other Latin American composers will also be heard in the second part of the programme, for which the Hamburg Stage Ensemble has been able to secure the outstanding bandoneonist Michael Dolak as a soloist.
- Michael Donak, bandoneon
- Arsen Zorayan, violin
- Hamburg Stage Ensemble
The Hamburg Stage Ensemble is made up of young, highly qualified instrumentalists who together pursue the vision of not only playing music, but also communicating it. The joy of playing together takes centre stage. The small ensemble and the conscious decision not to have a conductor means that the audience can participate directly in the concert.
Once again, violinist Arsen Zorayan will be the soloist and artistic director, and once again the audience will be taken on a journey through the four seasons - but this time the composer is not Antonio Vivaldi, but Astor Piazzolla. Multifaceted, exhilarating tangos and ballads by Piazzolla and other Latin American composers will also be heard in the second part of the programme, for which the Hamburg Stage Ensemble has been able to secure the outstanding bandoneonist Michael Dolak as a soloist.
- Dmitry Gladkov, fortepiano
A unique series of concerts in the Beethoven House Museum brings the historical keyboard instruments from the museum's collection to life. Listeners can experience the sound ideals of Beethoven's time at first hand and learn about the special features of the instruments as the pianists explain them.
The concerts last around 40 minutes and take place in the museum's music room. The room is not air-conditioned.
Concert tickets at a price of € 8 (plus admission to the museum) are available at the shop ticket office (always from the Monday before the event). This offer is aimed at individual visitors to the museum.
- Annique Göttler, piano
The programme of the piano recital is less a linear narrative than an artfully woven tapestry of scenes, moods and inner monologues. It combines three great musical languages – at the heart of this concert evening are Frédéric Chopin's four ballads – independent masterpieces full of poetry, drama and pianistic brilliance. Instead of presenting them as a cycle, they are deliberately placed individually between the works of two other great composers – in order to highlight their individual character, their respective narrative power and emotional depth. Ludwig van Beethoven's Sonata Pathétique, with its passionate seriousness and formal clarity, forms a striking contrast to Chopin's free ballad form.
Claude Debussy's Children's Corner, on the other hand, brings lightness and subtle humour to the programme – an imaginative homage to the world of childhood, written with the eye of a mature master.
A concert full of contrasts and narrative diversity – with Chopin's ballads as both its centrepiece and its common thread.
- Frédéric Chopins, Vier Balladen
- Ludwig van Beethovens, Sonate für Klavier (c-Moll) op. 13 (Sonate pathétique)
- Claude Debussy, Children's Corner
You are cordially invited to join us on an exciting journey through the world of keyboard instruments. We will discover how pianos and organs work, how they are built and, of course, how they sound. Can you guess which instrument was Beethoven's favourite? You can find out here at our museum.
Anmeldungen bis 17.10.
museum@beethoven.de
You are cordially invited to join us on an exciting journey through the world of keyboard instruments. We will discover how pianos and organs work, how they are built and, of course, how they sound. Can you guess which instrument was Beethoven's favourite? You can find out here at our museum.
Anmeldungen bis 17.10.
museum@beethoven.de
You are cordially invited to join us on an exciting journey through the world of keyboard instruments. We will discover how pianos and organs work, how they are built and, of course, how they sound. Can you guess which instrument was Beethoven's favourite? You can find out here at our museum.
Anmeldungen bis 17.10.
museum@beethoven.de
You are cordially invited to join us on an exciting journey through the world of keyboard instruments. We will discover how pianos and organs work, how they are built and, of course, how they sound. Can you guess which instrument was Beethoven's favourite? You can find out here at our museum.
Anmeldungen bis 17.10.
museum@beethoven.de
- Takahiko Sakamaki, fortepiano
A unique series of concerts in the Beethoven House Museum brings the historical keyboard instruments from the museum's collection to life. Listeners can experience the sound ideals of Beethoven's time at first hand and learn about the special features of the instruments as the pianists explain them.
The concerts last around 40 minutes and take place in the museum's music room. The room is not air-conditioned.
Concert tickets at a price of € 8 (plus admission to the museum) are available at the shop ticket office (always from the Monday before the event). This offer is aimed at individual visitors to the museum.
- Olga Reznichenko, piano
Olga Reznichenko began her training as a classical pianist at the age of eight, but soon discovered her passion for jazz. The young virtuoso student of Richie Beirach and Michael Wollny is now regarded as one of the most interesting figures on the current jazz scene and is making a name for herself above all with her trio. Here she combines complex harmonic and rhythmic structures with a simpler and minimalist texture and easily accessible melodies. As a soloist, she also allows her pieces to emerge from improvisation and gives space to her pure, intuitive joy of playing.
The concert will be recorded by Deutschlandfunk.