Ensemble arabesques: Theodore Gouvy – Serenade en octuor

In the organizer's words:

Theodore Gouvy (1819-1898) was a Franco-German composer of the Romantic period. He initially studied law in Paris from 1836. However, as his birthplace Goffontaine had fallen to Prussia four years before his birth as a result of the Second Treaty of Paris, he did not have French citizenship. After he was refused admission to the exams for this reason, he dropped out of his studies in 1839. His mother had already applied for Gouvy's naturalization in 1834, but under French law this required a ten-year stay in France. When the application was finally successful, Gouvy was already 32 years old. During his studies, Gouvy decided to become a musician, but was denied entry to the Conservatoire de Paris due to his lack of French citizenship. In 1995, the Institut de Louis Théodore Gouvy was founded in Gouvy's former villa in Hombourg-Haut. The Lorraine pianist and arranger Alain Thiel reconstructed the "Serenade en octuor" from the original manuscript for the Institute's music publishing house. The Ensemble arabesques will perform the "Serenade en octuor" in Hamburg, probably for the first time in 150 years in a concert hall. It is not known whether the work was ever performed during Gouvy's lifetime.

Price information:

Tickets: PK1: €47.50 / PK2: €39 / PK3: €33 Discounts: 50% pupils, students, members of arabesques-hamburg e.V., 25% other eligible groups