Violist

In France, the musical clock ticked differently in the 20th century than in Germany: Jean Françaix, who never composed in an avant-garde style, who remained grounded in tonality, who wrote entertaining, humorous, sentimental, and light-hearted music, is deeply revered in our neighboring country as a serious composer: something like that would never have happened here.

The Horn of the Angels

Beethoven Orchester Bonn

What, pray tell, is a cornet? One could say it's the soft, rounded sister of the radiant trumpet. Where the trumpet blares, the cornet caresses. French composers, in particular, employ it when a brass instrument's color is needed, perhaps for a love scene, a painful farewell, a yearning cantilena. For the first time, our principal trumpeter Sandro Hirsch, together with his colleagues, presents the cornet in a chamber concert with the Beethoven Orchestra, with two works for the same instrumentation: Danish and French Romanticism, flanked by the quintessential Impressionist string quartet: Ravel's only, mysterious, and rhythmically pulsating String Quartet in F major.

Cornet & Friends

Beethoven-Haus Bonn

Clarinet sounds instead of flute sounds: we had to change our programme for our first concert at the Bundesrat: Our three string colleagues* are now presenting our audience with an evening centred on the interplay between string instruments and the clarinet. Krzysztof Penderecki’s darkly luminous clarinet quartet opens the evening, followed by the serenade for string trio by Ernst von Doer, which is filled with a charming joy of playing and rhythmic vigour.

Violist

Christian Fischer

Events

Past events

Mar 4, 2026

The Horn of the Angels · Beethoven Orchester Bonn

Jan 19, 2026

Cornet & Friends · Beethoven Orchester Bonn

Future and recently performed repertoire

Viola in Clarinet Quintet by Mozart

Beethoven Orchester Bonn

Viola in String Trio in E-flat major by Beethoven

Beethoven Orchester Bonn

Viola in String Quartet in F major by Ravel

Beethoven Orchester Bonn

Viola in Septet for Cornet, Piano, String quartet and double bass by Sehested

Beethoven Orchester Bonn

Viola in Quartet for English horn, violin, viola and violoncello by Françaix

Beethoven Orchester Bonn

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