Beethoven 250 - Violin sonatas n 2 Grimstad/ Arendal
Sat 05 Oct
|Arendal Culture House
The second concert in the cycle introduces Brahms to the portfolio of Beethoven friends. His wonderful autumnal sonata in G major is the centerpiece of this program.
Tid og sted
05 Oct 2019, 13:00 – 15:00
Arendal Culture House, Sam Eydes Plass 2, 4836 Arendal, Norway
Om eventen
The first concert in the series presented a young and searching Beethoven and a mature Edvard Grieg. This program ends with the Brahms Scherzo which is one of the movements in the sonata "Frei aber Einsam" - Robert Schumann's birthday gift to his friend Joseph Joachim in 1853. Joachim was one of the great violinists of the time, who also became a very important collaborator for Brahms. The sonata was written by Schumann (2nd and last movement) and Schumann's pupil Albert Dietrich (first movement) and thus the young Brahms, who wrote this virtuosic and dramatic scherzo.
Edvard Grieg's sonata in G major opus 13 (1865) is nicknamed "the Norwegian" - understandable considering the tonal language that characterizes the sonata. Funnily enough, the main motif in the last movement of this sonata is the same one used by Debussy in his violin sonata, written many years later. Likewise, Brahm…