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Šest na pětce: Vídeňští mistři
Six on Five: Viennese Masters
Event by: Bennewitzovo kvarteto
Location: Komunitní prostor Smíchov, Na Doubkové 8, Praha 5
Tickets: 180–400 CZK · Get tickets
About event
The concert will include the entire 1st Vienna School, J. Haydn, W.A.Mozart and L.V Beethoven. The aim is to acquaint the listener with the development and concept of compositions of each of the composers of this school and point out elements of the style of classicist and emerging romantic. Haydn: string quartet G major, op. 77 No. 1
Bennewitz Quartet is one of the top of the international chamber scene. After winning two prestigious competitions - Osaka Chamber Music and Festa 2005 and Přemio Paolo Borciani, Italy 2008 - quickly gained criticism. The ensemble has won a number of awards and in 2019 four musicians won the Classic Prague Award for the best chamber performance of the year. In the 2023/24 season, Bennewitz's Quartet will return to a number of European stages (Stuttgart, Mannheim, Heidelberg, Linz, Bilbao) and will make their debut in Klagenfurt, Darmstadt and Duisburg. The Quartet will again perform in the United States and Canada and will continue with various concert projects in the Czech Republic, including cooperation on the comprehensive design of Dvořák string quartets as part of the Festival Dvořák Praha . The ensemble is currently preparing a new CD, which features string quartets of "those who played together" - Haydna, Mozart, Vaňhal and Dittersdorf. violin schools. His pupils include Otakar Ševčík and František Ondříček and especially Karel Hoffman, Josef Suk and Oskar Nedbal, who created the famous Czech Quartet under Bennewitz.