Violinist

Haydn was a superstar in his day – celebrated throughout Europe as one of the biggest figures on the music scene. He had Mozart as a pupil and discovered Beethoven. He has composed more than 100 symphonies and is known as the "father" of the string quartet. Joseph Haydn is one of the undisputed greatest figures in European music history. Come and experience why when we give Haydn the attention he deserves!

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Haydn Festival 2024

The Royal Danish Academy of Music

There are ghosts and devils scattered over tonight's concert with a loose hand. The "Geistertrioen" is arguably among Beethoven's best-known piano trios and certainly not a work you should fool yourself into hearing performed in the concert hall. And what is it that is so ghostly about it? It is its long and strikingly instrumented second movement that creeps somberly under the skin and seems more like background music to a horror film than any other work by Beethoven. Speculation that the music originates from drafts of an opera based on Shakespeare's Macbeth is probably not correct. Rather, the nickname is about the fact that Beethoven's student Carl Czerny noticed that the music made him think of the ghost scene in another work by Shakespeare - namely Hamlet . And the extremely appropriate nickname has stuck since this dramatic and deeply emotional work saw the light of day in 1808.

Pro Musica - Caplet, Tartini & Beethoven

Odense Concert Hall

Vivaldi was called the red priest because he was red-haired and priestly. You couldn't necessarily see that with the hair, because wigs were state-of-the-art in his time - and the priest's wedding was so-so, as he never came across as such. Instead, he came to manage a home for lost children in Venice, where young girls received a musical education. A large part of the many concerts he composed; over 400 and for many different instruments, are composed for these young musicians.

Erik Heide

Violinist

Events

Upcoming events

Nov 12, 2024

Pro Musica - Caplet, Tartini & Beethoven · Odense Symphony Orchestra

24 - 26 Apr, 2025

Vivaldi: Shower With The Strings · Odense Symphony Orchestra

Past events

6 - 8 Sep, 2024

Haydn Festival 2024 · Danish Chamber Orchestra

Future and recently performed repertoire

Violin in Violin Sonata in G minor by Tartini

Odense Symphony Orchestra

Violin in Symphony No. 86 by Haydn

Danish Chamber Orchestra

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