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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

Concert
Alter Saal
Oskar Böhme: Brass Sextet in E-flat Minor op. 30
Trombone
Maria Mertes
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier: Sonata in D Minor op. 40,1
Igor Stravinsky: Octet for Wind Instruments
Flute
Bassoon
Hitomi Wilkening Sophia Mindt
Clarinet
Trombone
Maria Mertes Marek Janicki

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.