Series VI – Music for Royalty: Ksiazek on the Keys
May 5, 2025
Where: Southminister United Church
When: May 5th 2025 From 7:30pm-9:30pm
Beethoven used a novel approach while creating the heroic Emperor Concerto; it was a time of great change for him during a war-ridden era and time to let go of old habits. This concerto hints at the larger than life works that would herald Beethoven’s new musical style. At the time, Vienna was under siege by Napoleon’s armies. Beethoven wrote that there was “nothing but drums, cannons, men, and misery” around him and fled to his brother’s cellar, covering his ears with pillows to protect his fading hearing. That sounds like ideal circumstances under which to compose, right? No cannons will be harmed in the performance of the Emperor Concerto.