Dec 04 2023 to Dec 04 2023 7 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Beethoven, first of the Romantics, came to notice in Vienna as an astonishingly virtuoso young pianist with a genius at improvisation. His writing for piano led the ways in which he re-forged the musical heritage of the west. Through her acclaimed poems, British poet Ruth Padel will conjure Beethoven’s life as he created this legacy, while building a chronological portrait of his genius around three piano pieces played by pianist Karl Lutchmayer. First, ‘Twelve Variations on a Russian Dance’ from 1796, written during his early years in Vienna. Then Sonata No. 27, written in 1814, his middle years and so-called ‘heroic’ period, after Napoleon had occupied and devastated Vienna. Finally, the Opus 126 Bagatelles of 1825, which he dedicated to his brother, and wrote while he was composing his groundbreaking late string quartets in his agonized but uniquely inspired last years.