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‘Foreign Masters’: Migrants from all over Europe shaped the incomparably rich music scene of London, the cultural capital of the 18th century. Max Volbers, winner of the 2023 OPUS KLASSIK award for Young Artist of the Year, and Alexander von Heißen, winner of the 2022 Bach Competition, bring a particularly dazzling facet of the music metropolis to life.

Handel from Halle was the most influential English composer, his opera arias were pop on the island. Under Handel's baton, the Italian oboist Sammartini made a name for himself in the orchestra; his compositions were considered original and fiery. Alessandro Scarlatti's ‘Pyrrhus and Demetrius’ was the second most successful opera in the kingdom. Corelli and Alberti, who never set foot on English soil, were made stars by resourceful music publishers in the cosmopolitan city. At the same time, the recorder became fashionable as the ‘gentleman's flute’, the instrument of wealthy amateurs and connoisseurs who performed for guests in private circles. Jacques Paisible/James Pesible, one of the greatest recorder players of the time, also helped his instrument to reach new heights in England.

It was musical migration, then, that gave English music its immensely rich heritage!

Works by George Frideric Handel, Arcangelo Corelli, Giuseppe Sammartini, Giuseppe Alberti, Johann Pepusch and others.

With the kind support of the German Music Council

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What have you always wanted to know about Beethoven?

Together with you, we will focus on a special topic related to the great composer. The focus is primarily on Beethoven the man. We will introduce you to a few selected objects in the museum. In the coffee round afterwards, creative and thought-provoking impulses will stimulate discussion.

The programme is aimed at senior citizens, culture lovers, but also curious people who would like to learn and experience something. As the topics change, the round(e) can be booked as a single or multiple event.

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With his late string quartets, Ludwig van Beethoven once again broke new ground at the end of his life. Anyone who plays or listens to them discovers a fascinating world of sound and expression, while at the same time being confronted with numerous questions. In a dialogue between interpretative practice and scholarship, the evening is devoted to the Quartet in E flat major, Op. 127 – a profound, humorous and deeply human work that is often unjustly overshadowed by Beethoven's other late works and was premiered exactly 201 years ago to the day.

The young Scandinavian Absalon String Quartet is currently completing a two-year master's degree in chamber music at the Robert Schumann University of Music in Düsseldorf with Prof. Eckart Runge, in whose practical seminar, together with Prof. Dr. Tobias Bleek (musicology), the work Op. 127 was studied.

In the first part of the joint event organised by the Beethoven Archive and the Düsseldorf University of Music, the work will be discussed and then performed in its entirety.

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The two musicians Richard Siedhoff and Mykyta Sierov elicit the wildest sounds, noises and melodies from their instruments and, in a playful exchange with the (young) audience, make it possible to experience how live music and silent film interact. The almost 100-year-old films captivate with timeless humour: slapstick stars Anita Garvey and Marion Bryon try to buy a delicious ice cream in A PAIR OF TIGHTS, ALICE'S DAY AT SEA features a real girl and a dog as well as the first drawn and animated elements, and Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are very musical in YOU'RE DARN TOOTIN'.

In co-operation with the Förderverein Filmkultur Bonn e.V.

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To mark the release of their third CD featuring works for oboe and piano, Philippe Tondre, winner of the Beethoven-Ring Prize, and Danae Dörken are once again performing a concert for the Citizens for Beethoven and the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn.

Das Hermes-Quartett, benannt in Anlehnung an den berühmten Boten aus der griechischen Mythologie, schöpft seine musikalische Kraft aus seiner Rolle als Vermittler zwischen dem Text des Komponisten und der Sensibilität des Publikums. Besonderen Verdienst hat sich das Quartett mit der Wiederentdeckung der Werke der französischen Komponistin Charlotte Sohy erworben.

The duo concert by artist in residence Aaron Pilsan with cellist Alexey Stadler on the occasion of the anniversary of Beethoven's death is not only a meeting of two instruments, but also a lively dialogue between two voices that carry Beethoven's spirit forward.

Conversation concert in collaboration with the Bürger für Beethoven.

The duo concert by artist in residence Aaron Pilsan with cellist Alexey Stadler to mark the anniversary of Beethoven's death is not just an encounter between two instruments, but also a lively dialogue between two voices that carry Beethoven's spirit forward.

Conversation concert in collaboration with the Bürger für Beethoven

What have you always wanted to know about Beethoven?

Together with you, we will focus on a special topic related to the great composer. The focus is primarily on Beethoven the man. We will introduce you to a few selected objects in the museum. In the coffee round afterwards, creative and thought-provoking impulses will stimulate discussion.

The programme is aimed at senior citizens, culture lovers, but also curious people who would like to learn and experience something. As the topics change, the round(e) can be booked as a single or multiple event.

Two exceptional musicians of their generation come together in a programme of rare expressive intensity. Giuseppe Gibboni, winner of the 56th Premio Paganini in Genoa, impresses with his stupendous technique, emotional depth and interpretative maturity that far exceeds his age. Arsenii Moon, winner of the 64th Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition and recipient of the Benedetti-Michelangeli Prize, is considered a 'sound magician' who ‘conveys genuine empathy and a unique sense of poetry in music' (Dallas Magazine). Together, they devote themselves to a finely balanced programme ranging from Alexey Shor's lyrical Violin Sonata No. 1 to the F.A.E. Sonata, composed jointly by Dietrich, Brahms and Schumann, to Rachmaninoff's dreamy Vocalise, culminating in a dramatic finale with Prokofiev's First Violin Sonata.

An evening of virtuosity and intimacy, precision and passion – between sound and poetry.

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.

'Fairy Tales and Legends' - Artist in Residence Aaron Pilsan opens up a new world of sound with intimate colours and unexpected perspectives in the interplay of piano with oboe and viola and, in the spirit of Beethoven, shows himself to be curious about chamber music, experimental, honest and deeply human.

'Fairy Tales and Legends' - Artist in Residence Aaron Pilsan opens up a new world of sound with intimate colours and unexpected perspectives in the interplay of piano with oboe and viola and, in the spirit of Beethoven, shows himself to be curious about chamber music, experimental, honest and deeply human.

At the age of eight, Kevin Chan won first place in the Canadian music competition and was subsequently named one of the '100 Remarkable Canadians'. Since then, his career has blossomed internationally and he has been widely recognised as a prizewinner at major competitions. In the Chamber Music Hall, he will play on the Steinway grand piano that led him to victory at the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv in 2023.

Some projects are the subject of lengthy artistic deliberations that lead to highly harmonised works. For example, the CD 'Surprise!' which brought French trumpeter Airelle Besson together with two outstanding figures from the young jazz scene on the other side of the Rhine, pianist Sebastian Sternal and drummer Jonas Burgwinkel, was the official birth of a trio that was as unexpected as it was seductive. The special alchemy between the three musicians is masterfully brought out on this first CD. Airelle on trumpet in her own personal style, precise, economical, pure, constantly focussed on the purity of the vocals; Sebastian on piano and Fender Rhodes, putting his fluid movements and the discreet virtuosity of his playing at the service of the overall sound, with a sense of architecture and spatialisation of remarkable clarity and precision; and Jonas on drums, breathing both sustain and breath into the trio, with his art of groove and dotting of rare delicacy.

The South Tyrolean baritone André Schuen is at home on the world's great opera and concert stages. His recordings of the great Schubert song cycles together with Daniel Heide for Deutsche Grammophon have been highly acclaimed internationally. With the song programme 'Träume-Alpträume' he presents himself to the Bonn audience for the first time.

With the kind support of the Hermann J. Abs Foundation