Baroque Music Montana | Beyond Baroque: Fabulous Fanny

This program explores Fanny Mendelssohn’s musical world in Berlin and the influences of her family and social position on her dramatic String Quartet in E-flat. Additional repertoire includes works from the baroque through romantic ages, including pieces from her Aunt Sara Levy’s concert salon and vast manuscript collection, to the hit opera composer of the day Giacomo Meyerbeer, and on to revered Beethoven, Fanny’s greatest influence. Musicians will use period instruments in an exploration of historic, early-romantic style.

Artists

Carrie Krause & Davina Clarke – baroque violin Maureen Murchie – viola Michael Unterman – cello

Program

Haydn Kaiser String Quartet Op 76 No 3 (1799)

Beethoven Country Dances (1802)

Graun “Chorale du Dessen Augen Flosen” from Tod Jesu (1755)

Meyerbeer Entr’acte’s from “Struensee” (1844)

Fanny Mendelssohn String Quartet in E-flat

~ Concert Length: 1.5 hr with a 10-minute intermission ~