Avita Duo violin/piano recital: Beethoven, Biber, Lily Boulanger, and Dohnanyi
About This Event
At Bargemusic the Avita Duo violin/piano recital presents works by Biber, Beethoven, Lili Boulanger and Ernő Dohnányi. The program pairs Biber's mid‑Baroque violin idiom and Beethoven's Classical‑to‑Romantic repertoire with Lili Boulanger's Symbolist‑Impressionist chamber voice and Dohnányi's Central European composer‑pianist tradition. The recital foregrounds contrasts of style and period within an intimate chamber setting.
About the Artists
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven, a monumental figure in the world of classical music, continues to captivate audiences with his timeless compositions, which range from the Classical era's elegance to the Romantic period's emotive depth.
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber was a Czech-Austrian composer and violinist of the middle Baroque era. Biber worked in Graz and Kroměříž before he illegally left his employer, Prince-Bishop Karl Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn, and settled in Salzburg.
Lili Boulanger
Marie-Juliette Olga Boulanger, professionally known as Lili Boulanger, was a French composer and musician, associated with the Symbolist and Impressionist movements. The first woman to win the Grand Prix de Rome composition competition, her older sister was the composer and composition teacher Nadia Boulanger; their father was the composer Ernest Boulanger.
Ernő Dohnányi
Ernst von Dohnányi was a Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor. He used the German form of his name on most published compositions.