Beethoven invents jazz: News from classical music | PLZ50
Bit by bit, the speaker uses entertaining stories and numerous impressive musical examples to show how close Ludwig van Beethoven’s musical style is to jazz. Syncopation, rhythmic freedom, improvisational passages: all of this suddenly makes Beethoven sound like a contemporary. But that’s not all: as a lively encore, there are surprising extras about Beethoven and his legacy—little discoveries that will amaze even connoisseurs. An evening full of energy, inspiration, and playful lightness. Allegro giocoso!
Further offerings:
- From cave painters to Hollywood: Music hits of the last 50,000 years
- Revolution! Music and politics – appeals, a composer as president, an opera leading to statehood, and much more
- The composer as entrepreneur. Millionaire at the court of Louis XIV, own opera houses and life annuities
- News from the New World – falsified heroes and false images. Dvorak’s symphony and Hiawatha, the first indigenous hero in literature
Bild: Rüdiger Tiedemann
Rüdiger Tiedemann is a Rotarian in the continent’s first chartered e-club with a passion for music, as an active viola player in several orchestras, quartets and other formations, as well as a mediator and narrator on a variety of topics relating primarily, but not only, to classical music.
Contact:
To book a presentation, please email ruediger.tiedemann@gmx.de.