1st Chamber Concert

Smetana | von Dohnányi
from 8 years
9. November 2025
https://www.mainfrankentheater.de/ Mainfranken Theater Würzburg Theaterstraße 21, 97070 Würzburg

Chamber Music Hall of University of Music | 11:00
Hofstr. 13,
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Cast
Yuliia Bielitska (Violin)
Yulim Kim (Violin)
Ekaterina Zubkova (Viola)
Lukas Barmann (Violoncello)
Bedřich Smetana
String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat minor, “From My Life”
Ernst von Dohnányi
Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 1
With works by Bedřich Smetana and Ernst von Dohnányi, the 1st Chamber Music Matinee focuses on the music of two Slavic composers. In his first string quartet, Smetana does not merely profess his love for his Czech homeland. Rather, the work, which he titled “From My Life,” is an autobiography in sound, in which Smetana described both the happy moments of his youth and the “inevitable fate” of his deafness, which had finally become a certainty in 1876, the year the quartet was composed.
Ernst von Dohnányi, born in Pressburg (Bratislava), was just 18 years old when he composed his first piano quintet. The timbres of the quintet still unmistakably bear witness to his great role model, Johannes Brahms. Brahms attended the Vienna premiere and remarked that he himself could not have done better. This marked the beginning of Dohnányi’s career as a composer.