Sunday • 24 August 2025 • 3 pm
Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt Oder
Peter Gülke • conductor
Piano • NN
Peter Gülke • introduction to the concert in the refectory at 2:15 pm
Antonín Rejcha (1770 - 1836) • Ouverture in D (1824)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) • 4th Piano Concerto in G major op. 58 (1805/1806)
Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904) • Symphony No. 7 in D minor op. 70 (1884/185)
“The soul of music is variation”
Antonín Reicha from Bohemia wrote this in his treatise on the noble art of composing. And indeed, all of the composers represented in this afternoon are highly skilled in the art of varying a subject and motif. Reicha surprised his audience by setting his Overture in D minor in the then unusual five-four time and having the instruments passing accentuations back and forth. Beethoven, in his Fourth Piano Concerto, reinterpreted the form with new characters of the movements: an intimate togetherness in the first, subtle contrast in the second (called a “big mysterious andante” by Schumann) and a sweeping rondo in the last – all of which had lasting influence on follow-up composers.
Dvořák used motivic similarities in the subjects to connect all four movements of his Seventh. Its success both in his Bohemian home and on the international stage in London, where it premiered, was not least due to the connections he made between the Viennese School (Beethoven), German-Austrian musical culture (Brahms) and the tonal symbolism of his Czech homeland.
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Tickets 47 € • 43 € • 37 € • 31 € • 21 € • 15 € • 13 €
Discounts 4 €