Ensemble Audace

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Musiksalon // Classical music: music for strings by Schulhoff, Shostakovich and Brahms

String quartet matinees are a trademark of the Musiksalon. This season, we want to draw attention to a quartet composer of the "New Objectivity": Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942). If this German-Bohemian-Jewish composer had not died of tuberculosis in the Wülzburg camp, who knows how he would have changed the music of the post-war period? With his jazz influences, his motor skills, his joy of playing, his always accessible harmonies? All of this can be heard in his "5 Pieces for String Quartet" from 1923. 15 years later, Dmitri Shostakovich composed his first string quartet in the "harmless" C major. Shostakovich had to write many of his works under the pressure of the Stalinist dictatorship and perhaps found his highly personal path precisely because of this. For Johannes Brahms' second string quintet op. 111, the "Ensemble Audace" was expanded to include a second viola. The quintet was originally intended by Brahms in 1890 as the conclusion of his compositional output, which demonstrates the importance Brahms attached to the work. The fact that it did not remain so and that much more beautiful music followed - all the better. This content has been machine translated.