Archduke Rudolph & Beethoven:  Archduke Rudolph of Austria was initially a piano student of Beethoven, then the two became friends. Beethoven dedicated to him many compositions, among which the Archduke Trio, the Hammerklavier sonata, the Emperor concerto and the Missa Solemnis.

Program

Erzherzog Rudolph von Österreich   Trio for Clarinet, Violoncello and Piano in E flat Major

(1788-1831) –  Allegro moderato

• Scherzo: Allegretto
• Larghetto. Theme from the Octet by Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia

Ludwig van Beethoven Trio for Clarinet, Violoncello and Piano in B flat Major

(1770-1827) –    Allegro con brio

• Adagio
• Allegretto. Tema: Pria ch’io l’impegno

Instrument:

Andre Stein ca.1805
Conrad Graf 1836

Geelvinck Fortepiano Festival in Gelderland

Aan Tullia Melandri de eer om met haar Trio het openingsconcert te verzorgen van het Gelderse deel van ons 10de Geelvinck Fortepiano Festival. Zij speelt al jaren met succes in onze Festivals. Zij openen met Trio’s van Aartsbisschop Rudolph van Oostenrijk en Ludwig van Beethoven. Aartshertog Rudolph was aanvankelijk pianostudent van Beethoven, waarna de twee vrienden werden. Fortepianist Tullia Melandri brengt deze vriendschap in muziek tot leven met cellist Evan Buttar en Alejandro Fariña Martín op klarinet ”. Vanaf 1803 nam Rudolf pianolessen en lessen compositieleer van Ludwig van Beethoven. De twee werden goede vrienden, Rudolf werd de beschermheer van Ludwig van Beethoven en hij werd een grote steun voor Beethoven. Ze bleven elkaar ontmoeten tot 1824. Ludwig van Beethoven heeft 14 composities aan Rudolph gewijd, waaronder het Vierde en Vijfde pianoconcert, de pianosonate Les Adieux, de Hammerklaviersonate en de Grosse Fuge. Rudolfph op zijn beurt, wijdde één van zijn eigen composities aan Beethoven. De brieven die Beethoven schreef aan Rudolf zijn tot op de dag van vandaag bewaard gebleven in de Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wenen. Ook Ferdinand Ries en Franz Schubert droegen werken aan hem op. Veel luister en kijk plezier van deze bijzondere vriendschap en combinatie van componisten.

Tullia Melandri has the honour of providing the opening concert of the Geelvinck Fortepiano Festival in Gelderland with her Trio at our 10th Festival edition. She has been playing successfully in our Festivals for years. Archduke Rudolph was initially a piano student of Beethoven, then the two became friends. Fortepianist Tullia Melandri brings this friendship in music to life with cellist Evan Buttar and Alejandro Fariña Martín on clarinet. From1803 Rudolf took piano lessons and composition lessons from Ludwig van Beethoven. The two became good friends, Rudolf became Ludwig van Beethoven’s patron and he became a great support to Beethoven. They continued to meet until 1824. Ludwig van Beethoven dedicated 14 compositions to Rudolf, including the Fourth and Fifth Piano Concerto, the Piano Sonata Les Adieux, the Hammerklavier Sonata and the Grosse Fuge. Rudolf, in his turn, dedicated one of his own compositions to Beethoven. The letters Beethoven wrote to Rudolf have been preserved in the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna to this day. Ferdinand Ries and Franz Schubert also dedicated works to Rudolph. Enjoy listening and watching this special friendship and combination of composers!

Musicians:

Tullia Melandri – fortepiano

Tullia Melandri graduated in Piano with full marks in 1998 at the Rovigo’s Conservatory and in Conservation of Cultural Heritage (Musical Specialization) at the Bologna’s Athenaeum in 2002. She studied chamber music at the Accademia Chigiana and graduated at the International Pianistic Academy of Imola “Incontri col Maestro” in chamber music with Piernarciso Masi. Later she studied with Daniel Rivera at the “P. Mascagni’s Istituto Musicale in Livorno, achieving the Master cum laude.

Her interest in historically informed interpretation brought her to study fortepiano with Bart van Oort at the Koninklijke Conservatorium in Den Haag, where she brilliantly graduated in 2012.

She won prizes at Piano, Chamber Music and Fortepiano Competitions (2nd prize at the Geelvinck Square Piano competition – 2011; 2nd prize at “Giulio Rospigliosi” piano competition – 2007; 2nd prize at “Nuovi Orizzonti” chamber music competition – 2006; 3rd prize at “Dino Caravita” chamber music competition; 3rd prize at “L. Muzii Altruda” piano competition – 1995) and she is active as soloist and chamber musician in various formations.

She has performed, among others, for Ravenna’s “Giovani in musica” festival, Ravenna Festival (“Vespri di San Vitale”), Florence’s “Accademia Bartolomeo Cristofori”, Utrecht’s “Oude Muziek” festival, Dordrecht’s Bachfestival and Geelvinck Fortepiano Festival.

She recently recorded a cd, dedicated to Schumann’s piano works, played on a1830’s Viennese fortepiano (Dynamic label) which received very good reviews and was broadcasted on Radio Classica, Radio Ravegnana, Radio 3 (Primo Movimento).

Alejandro Fariña Martín – klarinet

 Alejandro Fariña Martín was born in 1989 in Tenerife (Spain). He began to study clarinet when he was 8 years old in the conservatory of Tenerife, where he finished the intermediate degree with Celedonio Serrano. In 2009 he was admitted in the Royal conservatory of Madrid. He studied clarinet with Adolfo Garcés and pedagogical studies with Antonio Torrado at the same time. He finished the bachelor in 2013. During this period he participated in some master classes with Fabio Di Càsola, Sergio Bossi, Philippe Berrod or Javier Martinez.

   In 2014 he started to study master in clarinet in the Royal conservatory of The Hague with Pierre Wounderberg and the orchestral master with the Residentie Orchestra of The Hague as well. In 2016 he started to be interested on historical informed performance practice. For this reason, he was admitted to study historical clarinets at the Koninklijk Conservatorium (The Hague) under the guidance of Eric Hoeprich. Also, he has received lessons from Lorenzo Coppola, Nicola Boud or Guy van Waas among others. He has played with different early music ensembles such as Trondheim Barokk Orchestra, Capella Sacra, Warsaw Chamber Opera, Capella Gedanensis, Orchestra of the 18th century and La Academia de los Afectos. He has worked together with Valery Gergiev, Philippe Herreweghe, Victor Pablo Pérez, Kenneth Montgomery or Sir Roger Norrington.

Evan Buttar – cello

Evan Buttar started playing music at a young age in Vancouver, Canada. After completing a bachelor’s degree on modern cello at the University of Ottawa, 2014, he moved to the Netherlands to pursue a baroque cello master’s degree with Jaap ter Linden at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague. He graduated in 2016, and that same year started a second master’s study there on the viola da gamba with Mieneke van der Velden and Philippe Pierlot, which he completed in 2018. He enjoys playing and exploring a wide variety of repertoire from Renaissance to contemporary with many ensembles, orchestras, and as a soloist. Evan performs with groups such as the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and the Butter Quartet, a string quartet that is currently part of the eeemerging+ programme. He has performed in numerous festivals, including Musica Antica da Camera, Geelvinck Fortepiano Festival, Bach Festival Dordrecht, Chopin and his Europe Festival, the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, and the Beethoven Academy in Wrocław. Evan plays a baroque cello by Jakob Weiss (ca. 1745) generously on loan from the collection of The Dutch Musical Instruments Foundation (het Nationaal Muziekinstrumenten Fonds).

Informatie voor de bezoeker:

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Het live concert bijwonen 

De concerten in het kader van het Geelvinck Early Piano Festival 2020 hebben een ander format dan u gewend bent. Alle concerten worden opgenomen, wat met zich meebrengt dat de daarbij behorende apparatuur deel van de setting zal zijn. De opnames worden op een later (spoedig) moment via Vimeo uitgezonden. De uitzenddatum maken wij bekend op onze website, in onze Geelvinck Nieuwsbrief en op onze social media.
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The festival concerts will have another format than you are used to. All concerts of the Geelvinck Early Piano Festival 2020 will be recorded, which means that the necessary equipments is part of the scene. The recordings will be broadcasted on Vimeo at a later (soon) moment. We will announce the broadcast date on our website, in our Geelvinck Newsletter and on our social media. Please note that the format of the concert may be altered to fit with our accompanying podcasts.

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Videostream – Geelvinck Festival Online!

Onze online festival zal plaatsvinden in december 2020! informatie over de online videostream volgt binnenkort.

Our online festival is launching in December 2020! Information about watching the videostream online will be available soon