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With the entry of chamber music into the bourgeois households of the 19th century, the fashion grew to arrange orchestral works for smaller ensembles, thus making music a part of daily life. Already Johann Nepomuk Hummel arranged the symphonies of Mozart and Beethoven for piano or quartet. When the doors of the musical salons opened, the form of the salon orchestra emerged, consisting of a few wind instruments, simply staffed strings (often without violas), and the sonically highly appealing and harmonically filling combination of piano and harmonium.

As colorful as this ensemble is our excursion into the world of the salon: from Mozart’s “Kleine Nachtmusik” in a completely unusual sound to the romantics Saint-Saëns and Wagner, to the two very different Strauss’: Richard with his youthful fantasy about the end of life, and Johann with his vital homage to the life of an artist. A special attraction is likely to be the arrangement of the prelude to Act 3 of Wagner's “Meistersinger”, which is solely for the two keyboard instruments represented. The fact that this intimate orchestration can manage without a conductor corresponds to the character of the chamber music program.
And the encounter of the two great opera composers Wagner and Strauss recalls an anecdote: when Siegfried Wagner, the son of the Bayreuth master, gushed to Strauss, “My father is a mountain that no one can surpass,” the latter replied in the deepest Bavarian dialect: “I made it simple: I just went all the way around!”

THE PROGRAM:

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART - Serenade in G major K. 525 "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" (Arrangement for salon orchestra)
Camile SAINT-SAËNS - Potpourri from the opera "Samson et Dalila" for salon orchestra
Richard WAGNER - Prelude to Act 3 of the opera "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" for piano and harmonium
Richard STRAUSS - Death and Transfiguration (Arrangement for salon orchestra)
Johann STRAUSS (Son) - Waltz "Künstlerleben" for salon orchestra

Orchestra: Mitteldeutsche Kammerphilharmonie Schönebeck
Piano and Conductor: Jan Michael HORSTMANN

Event data provided by: Reservix

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