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Free concert: piano journey from Bach to Beethoven

Music · Friday, January 22 · 19:00 · Paris

Auditorium de l'Hôpital Bretonneau, 23, rue Joseph de Maistre

Free

A piano concert told by DOm Paulin, tracing the thread of German and Austrian music, from the masters Bach admired to Vienna. In Bach's time, Germany did not yet exist. Principalities, duchies and free cities abound, with organs, claviers and musicians everywhere. Composition happens in Lübeck, in Leipzig, in Nuremberg… and in Vienna. This concert starts before Bach, with a few slightly forgotten masters that Bach admired so much he crossed the country on foot to hear them. Then comes Bach himself, and finally Vienna, with Mozart and Beethoven. There you discover a…