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Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall at FSW
The Three B’s—Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms take center stage in this homage to some of classical music’s most enduring composers. Featured works include Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Brahms’ Hungarian Dances No. 5 & 6, and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, featuring American pianist Joseph Kingma, winner of the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition.
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Composers
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer is such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the “Three Bs” of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.
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Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most widely recognized and admired composers in the history of Western music, and served as an important bridge between the Classical and Baroque era styles he admired and the Romantic style his music would come to personify. Beethoven was born in 1770 into a modest family in the small German provincial town of Bonn, where he would study composition and play the piano and viola until moving to Vienna in his early 20’s where he would live the rest of his life.
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