BLEMF24 | ANDERS MUSKENS "INCARCERATED MUSIC: SONATAS BY C.F.D. SCHUBART"

BLEMF24 | ANDERS MUSKENS "INCARCERATED MUSIC: SONATAS BY C.F.D. SCHUBART"

Bloomington Early Music Festival 2024
Early Music in Exile | May 19-25, 2024 | http://www.blemf.org

Visit http://www.andersmuskens.com/ to learn more about Anders Muskens.

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Pre-concert discussion with Anders Muskens and Michael Weinstein-Reiman:    • BLEMF24 | Pre-concert discussion ANDE...  

Anders Muskens is a BLEMF Emerging Artist.

Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739-1791) was a German composer, organist, keyboardist, music theorist, poet, journalist, and dedicated activist. Praised by Charles Burney who heard him play organ in Ludwigsburg, Schubart is mostly remembered today as the author of the poem "Die Forelle," which Franz Schubert set to music years later. In an era before true freedom of speech in Germany, Schubart’s published attack on the improprieties of the Jesuits led to his arrest and decade-long confinement in the severe conditions of the Hohenasperg Fortress. During his incarceration, Schubart authored the important treatise "Ideen zu einer Aesthetik der Tonkunst,” (“Ideas for an Aesthetics of Musical Art”) and wrote music and poetry, much of which in the "Sturm und Drang" style. For his political and religious views, Schubart was persecuted: exiled from society, and confined to a cell within a mighty, cold, stone fortress. Yet, in the prevailing spirit of the 18th century, his captors showed a level of Enlightenment leniency and allowed him to publish his art despite his status as a convicted prisoner.

This concert was recorded from within the very cell at the Hohenasperg Fortress where Schubart spent a decade, and wrote much of the music we will hear performed.
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Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739 – 1791)
- Keyboard Sonata No. 1 in D major from “Etwas für Clavier und Gesang.“ Winterthur (1783)
Allegro
Andante cantabile
Presto
Tempo di menuetto

Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739 – 1791)
-Keyboard Sonata No. 2 in C major from “Etwas für Clavier und Gesang.“ Winterthur (1783)
Allegro
Andante
Presto
Rondo

Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739 – 1791)
-Keyboard Sonata No. 3 in D major from “Etwas für Clavier und Gesang.“ Winterthur (1783)
Allegro
Andante grazioso
Presto

Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739 – 1791)
-13 Variations on a Theme in B flat
(manuscript, 1790 in the Badische Landesbibliothe Karlsruhe)
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Anders Muskens is a Canadian early keyboard specialist and ensemble director, active as an international artist in North America and Europe. He completed an Associate Diploma (ARCT) in modern piano from the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto and a Masters in Fortepiano at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague. He is currently a doctoral candidate in musicology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen where he is researching the connection between rhetorical acting and music in the long eighteenth century. He has performed internationally at festivals and venues including the Utrecht Early Music Festival, the Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele, Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the National Music Centre, and the London International Festival of Early Music. Muskens is the founder of Das Neue Mannheimer Orchester, an international initiative to revive the music of the Mannheim School in the second half of the eighteenth century.
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BLEMF 2024: Early Music in Exile explores music of communities and individuals forced from their homeland as a consequence of war, political oppression, or religious expulsion; those living in religious and ethnic diaspora; and those surviving the paradox of exile “in place” under tyranny, incarceration, and forced conversion. Their stories—vividly brought to life through glorious music that displays resistance, defines identity, communicates faith and conviction, and conveys fear, loss, hope, and joy—have deep resonance today.

As BLEMF 2024 unfolds, join us for seven live concerts and four virtual performances, following in-depth preconcert discussions led by scholars and musicians–all available online. Enjoy the first midweek BLEM Community Showcase, the second BEMI Stanley Ritchie Youth Performance, and the US debut of the sensational Spanish vocal quartet, Cantoría. Each weekday afternoon, investigate everyday life in the early music era in six educational workshops for children and adults—from drink to dance, sword fighting, and early technologies. And delight in the vibrant imagination of children in our New Neighbors Art Exhibit during the evenings at FAR Center for Contemporary Arts.