Beethoven 250 - Violin Sonata n 5 Kreutzer Sonata - Grimstad/ Arendal
Sat 25 Apr
|Grimstad church
Fifth concert in the series celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. This time, love and jealousy take center stage.
Tid og sted
25 Apr 2020, 13:00 – 15:00
Grimstad church, Kirkegaten 16, 4878 Grimstad, 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…