“Quantz! And then?”: This is the question the next Quantz concert will explore, organized by the Johann-Joachim-Quantz Society on Sunday, September 6, at 5:00 p.m. at St. Mark’s Church in Scheden. The performers are flutist Susanne Sohayegh and organist Konrad Kata, both from Lübeck. They previously performed in Scheden in 2023.
This time, Susanne Sohayegh will showcase three of her instruments: a transverse flute, a wooden flute with a mechanism, and a silver flute—thus illustrating developments in flute-making, a field in which Quantz was also active, though not always bringing about lasting changes.
The program features works by Johann Adolph Hasse, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frédéric Chopin/Gioachino Rossini, Gabriel Fauré, and Theodor Blumer. These works trace the path that the art of composition has taken since Quantz, who, among other things, composed well over 300 flute concertos.
In addition, the program includes several short solo pieces for transverse flute as well as a work for organ, which Konrad Kata will perform on the Johann-Dietrich-Kuhlmann organ, which underwent extensive renovation in 2011.
Tickets can be purchased in advance at Tickets Dransfeld - Göticket, Lange Str. 9, 37127 Dransfeld, 05502 / 9109142 - www.goeticket.de and at all official Reservix advance ticket sales locations throughout Germany, as well as online at Reservix. Admission is 18 euros, reduced rate 15 euros, and free for children 14 and under.
To coincide with the village flea market taking place in Scheden on the same day, concert tickets can also be won in a raffle at the Quantz Society’s booth (near the Quantz monument).
Before the concert begins—which is sponsored by the Hermann-Hildebrandt Foundation in Scheden, the VR-Bank in Southern Lower Saxony, and the Göttingen District—the Quantz exhibition will be open to the public free of charge in the church starting at 3:00 p.m. There, visitors can explore the life and work of the musician, who was born in the village in 1697. Texts, pictures, maps, documents, musical examples, sheet music, books, and a transverse flute modeled after Quantz’s original vividly trace his journey from the son of a blacksmith to an influential artist in an entertaining and informative way.
This time, Susanne Sohayegh will showcase three of her instruments: a transverse flute, a wooden flute with a mechanism, and a silver flute—thus illustrating developments in flute-making, a field in which Quantz was also active, though not always bringing about lasting changes.
The program features works by Johann Adolph Hasse, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frédéric Chopin/Gioachino Rossini, Gabriel Fauré, and Theodor Blumer. These works trace the path that the art of composition has taken since Quantz, who, among other things, composed well over 300 flute concertos.
In addition, the program includes several short solo pieces for transverse flute as well as a work for organ, which Konrad Kata will perform on the Johann-Dietrich-Kuhlmann organ, which underwent extensive renovation in 2011.
Tickets can be purchased in advance at Tickets Dransfeld - Göticket, Lange Str. 9, 37127 Dransfeld, 05502 / 9109142 - www.goeticket.de and at all official Reservix advance ticket sales locations throughout Germany, as well as online at Reservix. Admission is 18 euros, reduced rate 15 euros, and free for children 14 and under.
To coincide with the village flea market taking place in Scheden on the same day, concert tickets can also be won in a raffle at the Quantz Society’s booth (near the Quantz monument).
Before the concert begins—which is sponsored by the Hermann-Hildebrandt Foundation in Scheden, the VR-Bank in Southern Lower Saxony, and the Göttingen District—the Quantz exhibition will be open to the public free of charge in the church starting at 3:00 p.m. There, visitors can explore the life and work of the musician, who was born in the village in 1697. Texts, pictures, maps, documents, musical examples, sheet music, books, and a transverse flute modeled after Quantz’s original vividly trace his journey from the son of a blacksmith to an influential artist in an entertaining and informative way.