Musikkollegium Freiburg - Bach Fantasia and Fugue, Hummel Trumpet Concerto, Schreker Romantic Suite

Autumn concerts of the Musikkollegium Freiburg

- Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542 (arr. Timothée Methou)

- Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E major (version in E flat major)

- Franz Schreker: Romantic Suite, op. 14

Rarities and innovations
Probably very few people know Franz Schreker. In the 1920s, he was just as well-known as Richard Strauss or Arnold Schönberg. He developed his own style, which is characterized by rich orchestration with changing timbres through ever-changing instrumental combinations and diverse harmonies, sometimes bordering on atonality. The Romantic Suite, op. 14 will be performed, one of his early late-romantic works, but which already reveals his later characteristic tonal language.
In contrast to Schreker, Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the best-known composers today. In his organ work Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542, he uses harmonies that were innovative for the time and point far into the future. The fugue was written as part of his application for an organist position in Hamburg and is based on a Dutch folk song. An arrangement by Timothée Méthou for orchestra will be played.
Anton Weidinger, court trumpeter in Vienna, inspired Johann Nepomuk Hummel to write his Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E major with his invention of the keyed trumpet. The work makes full use of the then unique ability of this innovation to play chromatic notes across the entire scale. It is one of the most popular and most frequently performed works for trumpet and is played in the version in E flat major that is common today.

The orchestra is looking forward to your visit!

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