From Score to Performance

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Jörg Widmann's String Quartets

Jörg Widmann, resident artist for the 2023/24 season, will not be looking at his cards when it comes to composing, but he will be looking at his cards when it comes to rehearsing. Over two days, the composer and clarinettist will work with young musicians at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts to rehearse his string quartets. An intensive day of rehearsals is followed by an evening in front of an audience: in a public rehearsal, the listeners experience the composer working with the students - before the performance of his string quartets no. 1 to 5 is on the programme the following day.