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Concert à Sans Souci
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CONCERT À SANS SOUCI
Musique de chambre de Berlin à Sans Souci
L'histoire compte quelques monarques qui ont taquiné les muses. Sans doute le plus doué et le plus prolifique, Frédéric II, dit le Grand, accède au trône de Prusse en 1742. En plus de laisser une centaine de sonates et quelques concertos pour l'instrument dont il ne se séparait jamais, la flûte traversière, une grande partie de sa vie est consacrée à la musique. Il a Joachim Quantz comme professeur et il emploie de nombreux et remarquables musiciens, parmi lesquels les frères Graun, les frères Benda ainsi que Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Dès le début de son règne, il fait construire l'Opéra de Berlin et il reçoit également à Potsdam Jean-Sébastien Bach, qui composera son Offrande musicale à la suite de cette rencontre. Ce qu'il affectionne cependant, c'est le style galant, mélodique, raffiné et délicatement expressif, bien loin des complexités contrapuntiques du grand Cantor...
Les compositeurs
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784), Carl Stamitz (1746-1801), Friedrich Hartmann Graf (1727-1795), Johann Joachin Quantz (1697-1773), Franz Benda (1709-1786), Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Les interprètes
Francis Colpron et Anne Thivierge, flûte traversière classique, Olivier Brault, violon et alto, Mélisande Corriveau, violoncelle, Eric Milnes, clavecin.
Francis Colpron, direction
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CONCERT AT SANSSOUCI
Chamber music from Berlin to SansSouci
Of the several monarchs whose courting of the Muses has been recorded in history, there is no question that the most talented and prolific was Frederick II, who acceded to the throne of Prussia in 1742 and became known as Frederick the Great. As well as leaving some hundred or so sonatas and several concertos for the transverse flute, the instrument from which he was inseparable, he dedicated a major part of his life to music. As well as Joachim Quantz, his teacher, he employed numerous other noteworthy musicians, including the Graun brothers, the Benda brothers, and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. At the beginning of his reign he had an opera house constructed in Berlin. At his Potsdam palace he received a visit from Johann Sebastian Bach who, after this meeting, composed The Musical Offering. What Frederick was particularly fond of, however, was the galant style which, with its refined and delicately expressive melodies, was a far cry from the contrapuntal complexities of the great Cantor.
Composers
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784), Carl Stamitz (1746-1801), Friedrich Hartmann Graf (1727-1795), Johann Joachin Quantz (1697-1773), Franz Benda (1709-1786), Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Artists
Francis Colpron and Anne Thivierge, classical flute, Olivier Brault, violin and viola, Mélisande Corriveau, violoncello, Eric Milnes, harpsichord.
Francis Colpron, direction
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LocationSalle Bourgie (View)
1339, rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Montréal, QC H3G 1G2
Canada
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