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The spirit of composer Franz Schubert rides the coattails of older colleague Ludwig van Beethoven at his 250th birthday celebration in the UW Mead Witter School of Music’s seventh annual Schubertiade concert. Music of both composers will be performed by the Pro Arte Quartet and a roster of notable School of Music alumni, including mezzo soprano Allisanne Apple, sopranos Jennifer D’Agostino (pictured) and Jaime-Rose Guarrine, cellist Karl Knapp, tenor Daniel O’Dea and baritone Michael Roemer. ALSO: Professor of musicology Margaret Butler gives a lecture in the Rehearsal Hall at 2:15 pm.

press release: Featuring Mead Witter School of Music alumni:

Allisanne Apple, mezzo soprano

Jennifer D’Agostino, soprano

Jamie Rose Guarrine, soprano

Karl Knapp, cello

Daniel O’Dea, tenor

Michael Roemer, baritone

And the PRO ARTE STRING QUARTET (playing movements from Beethoven’s String Quartet, Op. 131), with pianists Martha Fischer and Bill Lutes

Please join us for a pre-concert lecture at 2:15 by Professor of Musicology Margaret Butler in the Rehearsal Hall of the Hamel Music Center.

About the concert: 

On January 26, 2019 our (pianists Martha Fischer and Bill Lutes) 7th Annual Schubertiade at UW Madison’s new Hamel Music Center will be (for the first time!) a hyphenated program: Schubert and Beethoven, as we begin the many observances of the Beethoven 250th anniversary. These two immortals lived near each other in Vienna, and it is possible that they met, though no definitive documentation of such a meeting survives. What is certain is that the younger Schubert was hugely impacted by Beethoven’s music and his stature, and in his own way took the older composer’s work as an inspiration and a challenge. Even in the field of song, in which Schubert first achieved unique brilliance and a modicum of fame, Beethoven was also an important pioneer of the lied and in 1816 wrote what is considered to be the first true song cycle: An die ferne Geliebte (included on our program). Schubert followed with his own great cycles Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise, but also found inspiration in Beethoven’s chamber music and symphonic works.

We will include songs by both composers, in some cases pairing and comparing their settings of the same poem, as well as a set of 4-hand variations that Schubert dedicated to Beethoven, and other works demonstrating Beethoven’s profound impact on his younger colleague. The program will end with the Pro Arte Quartet playing final movements of Beethoven’s String Quartet, Op. 131 that Schubert asked to hear performed as he lay dying.

On January 26, 2019 our (pianists Martha Fischer and Bill Lutes) 7th Annual Schubertiade at UW Madison’s new Hamel Music Center will be (for the first time!) a hyphenated program: Schubert and Beethoven, as we begin the many observances of the Beethoven 250th anniversary. These two immortals lived near each other in Vienna, and it is possible that they met, though no definitive documentation of such a meeting survives. What is certain is that the younger Schubert was hugely impacted by Beethoven’s music and his stature, and in his own way took the older composer’s work as an inspiration and a challenge. Even in the field of song, in which Schubert first achieved unique brilliance and a modicum of fame, Beethoven was also an important pioneer of the lied and in 1816 wrote what is considered to be the first true song cycle: An die ferne Geliebte (included on our program). Schubert followed with his own great cycles Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise, but also found inspiration in Beethoven’s chamber music and symphonic works.

We will include songs by both composers, in some cases pairing and comparing their settings of the same poem, as well as a set of 4-hand variations that Schubert dedicated to Beethoven, and other works demonstrating Beethoven’s profound impact on his younger colleague. The program will end with the Pro Arte Quartet playing final movements of Beethoven’s String Quartet, Op. 131 that Schubert asked to hear performed as he lay dying.v

Ticket prices: General admission $20.

Ticket policies: Free admission available day of show to UW-Madison students and music faculty, subject to availability. Please pick up your ticket at the Hamel Music Center box office one hour prior to the concert.

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