La Compositrice — Female Composers of the Early Modern Period and the Present Day
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Immerse yourself in the stunning architecture of Munich's breathtaking Allerheiligen Hofkirche for the ultimate concert set to awake your understanding of classical music.
Ensemble Phoenix Munich builds a bridge between the works of Italian women composers of the early modern period, the dances from a tablature book by Henriette Adelaide of Bavaria (1636‐1676) and the music of three contemporary women composers, integrated into a multimedia video production.
The inspiration for this programme idea 'La Compositrice' was the discovery of a tablature book for guitar in the Bavarian State Library from the possession of Electress Henriette Adelaide. This art‐loving Turin princess, it is said, brought Italian art and culture to the Bavarian court. She confidently presented herself in ballet productions before the court society some dances from the aforementioned tablature book are said to underline this.
The new participation of music‐making and composing women in the high culture of the Renaissance began in northern Italy. Highly respected female musicians worked at the courts and in the monasteries of Ferrara, Mantua, Milan and Siena, among them Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi, Maddalena Casulana and the nuns Isabella Leonarda, Vittoria Raffaella Aleotti, Caterina Assandra and Lucia Quinciani. Their works in the demanding genres of opera, madrigal, motet or sacred concerto have survived in numerous prints.
La Compositrice — this multimedia concert brings together female music of the early modern period and commissioned works by three female composers of today. In three chapters, the concert deals with the visibility of women in music. In its transdisciplinary orientation, the interweaving of music with film, the project also addresses the visibility of the female in its ambivalence between iconisation and transfiguration on the one hand and as a possibility of expression on the other.
Ensemble Phoenix Munich commissioned Dorothea Hofmann, Helga Pogatschar and Catalina Rueda to write new works for this concert.
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Soloists
Alena Hellerová soprano
Kamila Mazalová mezzo‐soprano
Colin Balzer tenor
Jan Čižmář theorbo, guitar, lute
Ryosuke Sakamoto lute, guitar, viola da gamba
Joel Frederiksen bass, lute, archlute, direction
Josef Bairlein film/ direction
Ulrike Keil programme idea, project management
