Beethoven 250 programme 2020

Lunchtime Concert Wednesday 18 March 1.30pm Christ’s Chapel

Beethoven Study Day The Pathétique Sonata Tuesday 17 March 4.00pm, Old Library

Orchestral Concert Friday 24 April 7.00pm, All Saints Church, West Dulwich Beethoven’s Symphony No 1 in C major starts in everything but the home key! A slow introduction displays a sequence of cadences, all in the “wrong” key, until the start of the Allegro con brio. The first movement of this ambitious symphony will be performed along other orchestral works by Mozart and other influential composers. Summer Term

Dulwich College singers perform songs by Beethoven and his contemporaries

Spring Choral Concert Friday 20 March 7.00pm Southwark Cathedral

Open to all SSLP schools, the afternoon will be dedicated to the study of Beethoven’s Pathétique Sonata. The lecture has been designed to further develop the analytical skills needed for the Listening and Appraising units of GCSE and A Level and will consist of a detailed analysis of its structure, composition techniques and other major features with live examples at the piano.

Dulwich College Choir and Dulwich College Madrigal Choir perform Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia Op 80 and Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem. The Choral Fantasia was written as the finale for an epic concert in December 1808, which saw the premieres of the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies and Fourth Piano Concerto. Brahms, a composer deeply influenced by Beethoven, finished writing his extraordinary Requiem exactly 60 years later in 1868.

“From the heart……..”: the creation of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, op. 123’

Lecture by Professor Nicholas Marston Tuesday 17 March 6.30pm Auditorium

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Vice-Provost, Praelector, and Director of Studies in Music of King’s College, Cambridge, Professor Nicholas Marston will explore one of Beethoven’s greatest and most complex works, the Missa solmemnis Op 123, which he embarked on writing 200 years ago.

Founder’s Day Concert Saturday 27 June

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Beethoven 250 festival comes to a conclusion with a performance of the last movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, arguably his most famous work.

Spring Chamber Concert Monday 23 March 7.00pm Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square

Tickets will be available in the Summer term

The chamber music programme of this season ends with a celebration of Beethoven’s chamber works including his Piano Trio Op 1 No 1, Quintet for Piano and Winds Op 16, Clarinet Trio Op 11 and works by composers who influenced or were influenced by Beethoven, including Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, and Brahms.

Key to Events:

Alleynians only Open to the public -Ticketed Open to the public - Free

Dates and times are correct at time of going to press but please check the College Website www.dulwich.org.uk or contact the Music Department on 020 8299 9258 for further details.

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