3rd Chamber Concert
Oskar Böhme: Brass Sextet in E-flat Minor op. 30 / Joseph Bodin de Boismortier: Sonata in D Minor op. 40,1 / Igor Stravinsky: Octet for Wind Instruments
Alter Saal
Igor Stravinsky composed the Octet for Wind Instruments in 1923. The Paris premiere audience had expected wild music, but found a sober classicist: icy silence after the premiere. Stravinsky said of his work, which has long since become a classic, that his octet should sound »dry, cool, clear and sparkling like champagne«.
The composer Joseph Bodin de Boismortier lived in France from 1689 to 1755. He had a very successful career in Paris as a »gallant composer«. He wrote the varied Sonata in D Minor op. 40,1 for bassoon and violoncello in 1732.
The late Romantic brass sextet by Oskar Böhme, who was a trumpeter at the St. Petersburg Opera before falling victim to the Stalin regime, opens the programme.