Kultur am Nachmittag - Konzert

Chamber music concert by the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra in the Gustav Siegle House

MOERAN | Fantasy Quartet
BRITTEN | Phantasy Quartet
DUBOIS | Piano quintet with oboe

Juan Carlos Rivas Perretta, oboe
Inés Pérez García, violin
N.N., viola
Yaroslav Georgiev, violoncello
Gina Poli, piano

Walter Wilson Cobbett was an English industrialist and great lover of chamber music who, in 1911, established a composition prize in his name. The aim was to revive the old genre of one-movement instrumental fantasies, which originated around 1600. In 1932, the 18-year-old Benjamin Britten won the prize with his innovative Phantasy for oboe and strings. His lesser-known colleague Ernest John Moeran wrote his Fantasy Quartet in 1945. Théodor Dubois (1837-1924), who taught at the Paris Conservatoire for over 40 years from 1871, created his large piano quintet in 1905.