On Tuesday 25 October, the Sociedad de Conciertos La Filarmónica will inaugurate its concert season at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid with the great Dezsö Ránki (in the photo).
And the event will emulate the meetings of the Café Zimmermann. At the beginning of the 18th century, cafés became the meeting place for intellectuals and merchants to enjoy musical evenings accompanied by coffee, the fashionable drink in Europe at the time. Johann Sebastian Bach’s Keyboard Concerto in D minor, which will open the Philharmonic’s season, was premiered at one of the chamber concerts that the composer organised weekly with his students at the well-known Café Zimmermann in Leipzig.
These concerts, which brought together hundreds of avid music lovers, not only allowed Bach to disconnect from his intense activity as Cantor of the local church of St. Thomas, but also gave him an outlet for all his non-religious works and allowed him to display his virtuosity on the various instruments he mastered.
The concert programme will be completed with Mendelssohn’s Symphony for Strings No. 13, in C minor, “Sinfoniesatz”, and Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night, op. 4. Tickets can be purchased at this link.
