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In Autumn 2009 Marieke Spaans will follow up Andreas Staier as harpsichord- and fortepiano teacher in Zürich (Switzerland), at the 'Zürcher Hochschule der Künste', next to her commitment to the Institute for Early Music in Trossingen (Germany). For more information, see Education. |
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W.A.Mozart 6 Sonates pour le Forté-piano avec accompagnement d'un Violon, KV 301-306, Opus 1, 1778 Marieke Spaans & Anton Steck made a recording in January 2006 of Mozart’s ‘6 Sonates pour le Forté-piano avec accompagnement d’un Violon’ (KV 301-306), in a production by the new label Ludi Musici in cooperation with the Deutschlandfunk. |
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Mozart wrote his ‘adult’ Opus 1 in 1778, the year he was travelling with his mother through Europe in search for a job at one of the big Royal Houses in Munich, Mannheim or Paris. It became a year of losses and disappointments: his love for Aloysia Weber remained unanswered, his mother died in Paris, and without employment after a year he was forced to return to Salzburg. In order to reveal all the emotions and colours of this wonderful first magnum opus of Mozart, Marieke Spaans choose a original Tangentenflügel (Walter?, Vienna, 1788), an instrument hardly known on stage at the moment, but very well known to Mozart, since his father was selling this type of instruments in Salzburg for its creator Späth of Regensburg. |
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The instrument, precise and brilliant in tone, just like a harpsichord, can produce a lot of different sounds, due to many registers and dynamic possibilities, and thereby creates fortepiano-sounds, as well as imitations of cymbals, harps and guitars.... Read here some highly commended reviews about the new CD. For more information about this recording, read the interview with the musicians Marieke Spaans and Anton Steck. (German) For more information about the outstanding violinist Anton Steck -> www.antonsteck.de For more information about the original Tangentenflügel, read an interview with its actual owner, the harpsichord-builder Matthias Kramer of Hamburg (Germany). For more information about Tangentenflügel in general, read Wikipedia More information about the new Label 'Ludi Musici' (p. 4) Order the CD from JPC Order the musical score at Bärenreiter Download the promo flyer |