Lunchbreak Concert Forgotten Fantasies

- The 19th Century Flute Virtuoso - Europe in the nineteenth century was an era of change, marked by its political, social, and economical transformations, and reflected in its musical, artistic, and literary developments. The rising middle class reinforced and adopted the new infrastructure of musical life and instrumental virtuosity became the signum temporis of this period. Contemporaneous to Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840), Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849), and Ferenc Liszt (1811-1886) were flutist composers such as Giulio Briccialdi (1818-1881), Paul Agricole Génin (1832-1903) and the inventor of our modern flute Theobald Boehm (1794 - 1881). This lecture recital will investigate the performance practices in Europe in the late 19th century and offer a glimpse to the artistic aesthetic of this time. We will delve into the historical past by recreating the musical and social context of the time through performances of compositions from the era, visual representations of the European salon music scene and costume.

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