Name: D’autres Lumières
Start: 2023-03-23T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-03-24T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Salle Poirel

Organization

Conductor

William Le Sage

Singer

Julien Chauvin

Violine 1

Chouchane Siranossian

Violine 2

Opéra national de Lorraine

Orchestra

Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Lorraine

D’autres Lumières

Nancy

France

Salle Poirel

D’autres Lumières: Symphony in F Major Habel (+3 More)

Public

Symphony in F Major

Symphonie Concertante In G Major, Op. 13

Erwin und Elmire

Symphony No.31 in D major, K.297

Approved

Before April's neo-classical concert, classicism takes centre stage in this programme led by two virtuoso violinists well-versed in this repertoire. A classicism that gives voice to the Enlightenment, which at that time set Europe on the path to modernity.

The overture to Erwin et Elmire, composed by the brilliant and enlightened Anne-Amélie of Brunswick to the play that Goethe wrote as a mirror image of Mozart's The Magic Flute, is a case in point. It is to this Duchess of Saxony-Weimar, a fine musician and wise politician, that we owe the presence of the literary and philosophical elite in the city of Thuringia during the years of the "Weimarer Klassik", led by Goethe and Schiller, who turned it into the German Athens of the 18th century.

A typical child of the Enlightenment, the surprising Chevalier de Saint-George is a singular character with an astonishing destiny: the son of a black slave from Guadeloupe, he travelled through the Europe of his day, in turn a prodigy of the sword, the violin or war. His music, original and inspired, is in keeping with this extraordinary character.

As for the Polish Antoni Habel, he is a typical figure of the "lesser" masters with a certain talent who flourished in the courts of the time, for whom they provided music of perfect balance and excellent workmanship, a veritable daily musical bread kneaded in the shadow of the great geniuses of the century. Mozart was already a genius in 1778, when he wrote his 31st Symphony for the Parisian public.

But a despised genius: he came to the French capital to make a name for himself and launch his career, but left defeated and humiliated, having lost his mother and his hopes of greatness, for the hated Salzburg and its degrading yoke.

English

D’autres Lumières by Habel, Bologne Chevalier De Saint-Georges, Von Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Mozart, From (2023/2023), Conductor William Le Sage, Salle Poirel, Nancy, France

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