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Composing Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven

Kilian Herold | Peter-Philipp Staemmler | Hansjacob Staemmler

Composing Beethoven

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Format: CD
Label: CAvi
UPC: 4260085534791
Catnr: AVI 8553479
Release date: 15 May 2020
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CAvi
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4260085534791
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AVI 8553479
Release date
15 May 2020
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COMPOSING BEETHOVEN
Originals and Arrangements
No one knows who first gave Beethoven’s Trio Op. 11 the nickname Gassenhauer (“street song”). Neither do we know if the name was kindly intended or derogatory, chosen to boost sales or perhaps meant ironically (Heinrich Heine, for instance, would later satirize the omnipresence of a tune, sung everywhere, from Weber’s opera chorus “Wir winden dir den Jungfernkranz”).

The catchy tune in Beethoven’s final movement with variations was the vocal trio “Pria ch‘io l‘impegno” (“Before I go to work”) from the comic opera L‘Amor marinaro (The Sailor’s Love), composed in 1797 by Joseph Weigl, who was a godchild of Haydn and had been pupil of Antonio Salieri.

The aria enjoyed widespread, long-term popularity: more than 30 years after the opera’s première, Paganini still delighted Vienna audiences with variations on the same tune. Beethoven wrote his instrumental trio only half a year after the première, probably fulfilling a commission by clarinetist Joseph Bähr, who is said to have asked for variations on that theme.

We cannot know whether Beethoven even liked the theme or not…….The most extended item on the program was a work with a relatively reduced lineup of musicians, a sort of reduced court orchestra: the “Septet on 4 string and 3 wind instruments, most humbly and obediently dedicated to
Her Majesty the Empress, and played by Sirs Schuppanzigh, Schreiber, Schindlecker, Bär, Nickel, Matauschek, and Dietzel” …… which remained Beethoven’s most performed work in the course of his lifetime. Beethoven himself arranged this work with an own Opus number for Clarinet, Cello and Piano around 1802 for the Publisher Breitkopf & Härtel….


When clarinetist Kilian Herold asked composer Johannes Schöllhorn to arrange a Beethoven work for trio, Schöllhorn thought of the Bagatelles Op. 119. The idea was to add a final level to a three-level concept, Composing Beethoven, consisting in an original work by Beethoven, then one of Beethoven’s arrangements of his own works, and, finally, a work by Beethoven arranged by a 21st-century composer. Schöllhorn, already wellexperienced in creative approaches to music of the past, deconstructs the original piano texture here in such a way that the resulting sound is not too lean, but opens up new areas of freedom for the pianist’s new partners.

He has conceived a light, airy trio texture brimming with discreet punch lines, interruptions, disruptions, unexpected connections, and cello sonorities ranging from sul tasto to col legno battuto, resulting in a fond, respectful homage to Beethoven.

Artist(s)

Peter-Philipp Staemmler (cello)

Ever since he won the renowned ARD Music Competition in Munich as a member of the Armida Quartet, Peter-Philipp Staemmler has been invited to perform in major music venues all over Europe, Asia, and the US. While he was still studying at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin, he won a series of outstanding national and international competitions, including the Concours de Genève and the German National Music Competition. Staemmler’s artistic and stylistic versatility as a member of several chamber music ensembles is captured on a multitude of CD recordings. Since 2017 he has been Principal Cellist of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony.
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Ever since he won the renowned ARD Music Competition in Munich as a member of the Armida Quartet, Peter-Philipp Staemmler has been invited to perform in major music venues all over Europe, Asia, and the US. While he was still studying at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin, he won a series of outstanding national and international competitions, including the Concours de Genève and the German National Music Competition.

Staemmler’s artistic and stylistic versatility as a member of several chamber music ensembles is captured on a multitude of CD recordings. Since 2017 he has been Principal Cellist of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony.


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Kilian Herold (clarinet)

A versatile chamber musician, renowned soloist and distinguished orchestral musician, Kilian Herold is one of the most interesting and versatile clarinettists of his generation. After holding positions as prin- cipal clarinetist with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and the SWR Symphony Orchestra, he was appointed professor of clarinet at the Freiburg University of Music in 2016, where he oversees an internationally successful clarinet class. Kilian Herold is also a frequent guest on the solo clarinet with top orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. His great passion is chamber music. He regularly performs at various festivals and concert series with musical partners such as Tanja Tetzlaff, Tianwa Yang, Maximilian Hornung, Florian Donderer, Hansjacob Staemmler and the Armida Quartet. Kilian Herold is also very interested in expanding the...
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A versatile chamber musician, renowned soloist and distinguished orchestral musician, Kilian Herold is one of the most interesting and versatile clarinettists of his generation. After holding positions as prin- cipal clarinetist with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and the SWR Symphony Orchestra, he was appointed professor of clarinet at the Freiburg University of Music in 2016, where he oversees an internationally successful clarinet class.
Kilian Herold is also a frequent guest on the solo clarinet with top orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
His great passion is chamber music. He regularly performs at various festivals and concert series with musical partners such as Tanja Tetzlaff, Tianwa Yang, Maximilian Hornung, Florian Donderer, Hansjacob Staemmler and the Armida Quartet.
Kilian Herold is also very interested in expanding the classical repertoire for his instrument. Some of these discoveries are documented on various excellent CD productions, released in recent years on the CAvi label


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Hansjacob Staemmler (piano)

Hansjacob Staemmler is Professor of Chamber Music and Piano Accompaniment/Coaching at Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, after having previously taught at the music universities of Berlin, Freiburg, and Karlsruhe. For many years, he has been pursuing a wide-ranging career as soloist, chamber musician, and vocal accompanist. His activities focus on chamber music in a number of different formations. Already during his studies, he performed on a regular basis as a chamber musician with soloists of the Berliner Philharmoniker orchestra in the Ensemble Berlin. Since then, Hansjacob Staemmler has been collaborating with renowned instrumentalists and vocalists in a great variety of chamber music formations, ranging from duos to sextets. As a piano soloist, he has given recitals as well as...
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Hansjacob Staemmler is Professor of Chamber Music and Piano Accompaniment/Coaching at Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, after having previously taught at the music universities of Berlin, Freiburg, and Karlsruhe. For many years, he has been pursuing a wide-ranging career as soloist, chamber musician, and vocal accompanist. His activities focus on chamber music in a number of different formations. Already during his studies, he performed on a regular basis as a chamber musician with soloists of the Berliner Philharmoniker orchestra in the Ensemble Berlin.
Since then, Hansjacob Staemmler has been collaborating with renowned instrumentalists and vocalists in a great variety of chamber music formations, ranging from duos to sextets. As a piano soloist, he has given recitals as well as concerts with orchestras. His artistic pursuits are likewise documented on several CD releases, along with numerous recordings for radio broadcast (Deutschlandradio Kultur, Bayrischer Rundfunk, Südwestfunk, and others). “Composing Beethoven,” Staemmler’s most recent chamber music CD featuring Beethoven’s clarinet trios with Kilian Herold (clarinet) and Peter-Philipp Staemmler (cello), was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Prize.
In duo formation with his brother, Peter-Philipp Staemmler (cello), Hansjacob was awarded the First Prize at the 2009 National Music Competition and chosen for the “Young Artist Concerts” national selection. Hansjacob Staemmler studied piano with Prof. Georg Sava at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin, completing his training with active participation in masterclasses imparted by Daniel Barenboim and Menahem Pressler. Oboist Burkhard Glaetzner has exerted a decisive influence on Staemmler’s artistic development: with Glaetzner, he has premiered a number of works by major contemporary composers.


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Composer(s)

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include nine symphonies, five piano concertos, one violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, his great Mass the Missa solemnis, and one opera, Fidelio. Together with Mozart and Haydn, he was part of the First Viennese School.    Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire, Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven and by composer and conductor Christian Gottlob...
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Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include nine symphonies, five piano concertos, one violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, his great Mass the Missa solemnis, and one opera, Fidelio. Together with Mozart and Haydn, he was part of the First Viennese School. Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire, Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven and by composer and conductor Christian Gottlob Neefe. At the age of 21 he moved to Vienna, where he began studying composition with Joseph Haydn, and gained a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. He lived in Vienna until his death. By his late 20s his hearing began to deteriorate, and by the last decade of his life he was almost totally deaf. In 1811 he gave up conducting and performing in public but continued to compose; many of his most admired works come from these last 15 years of his life.

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01.
Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, No. 4, in B flat Major, Op. 11: I Allegro con brio
08:48
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Kilian Herold, Peter-Philipp Staemmler, Hansjacob Staemmler
02.
Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, No. 4, in B flat Major, Op. 11: II Adagio
04:53
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Kilian Herold, Peter-Philipp Staemmler, Hansjacob Staemmler
03.
Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, No. 4, in B flat Major, Op. 11: III Thema: Pria ch‘io l’impegno. Allegretto – Var. I-IX
06:42
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Kilian Herold, Peter-Philipp Staemmler, Hansjacob Staemmler
04.
Bagatelles, Op. 119 (ca. 1822), arr. for Clarinet, Cello and Piano by J. Schöllhorn : No. 1 Allegretto
02:11
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Kilian Herold, Peter-Philipp Staemmler, Hansjacob Staemmler
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Bagatelles, Op. 119 (ca. 1822), arr. for Clarinet, Cello and Piano by J. Schöllhorn: No. 2 Andante con moto
00:54
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Kilian Herold, Peter-Philipp Staemmler, Hansjacob Staemmler
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Bagatelles, Op. 119 (ca. 1822), arr. for Clarinet, Cello and Piano by J. Schöllhorn: No. 3 à l’Allemande
01:38
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Kilian Herold, Peter-Philipp Staemmler, Hansjacob Staemmler
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Bagatelles, Op. 119 (ca. 1822), arr. for Clarinet, Cello and Piano by J. Schöllhorn: No. 4 Andante cantabile
01:51
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Kilian Herold, Peter-Philipp Staemmler, Hansjacob Staemmler
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Bagatelles, Op. 119 (ca. 1822), arr. for Clarinet, Cello and Piano by J. Schöllhorn: No. 5 Risoluto
00:58
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Kilian Herold, Peter-Philipp Staemmler, Hansjacob Staemmler
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Bagatelles, Op. 119 (ca. 1822), arr. for Clarinet, Cello and Piano by J. Schöllhorn: No. 6 Andante – Allegretto
01:43
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Kilian Herold, Peter-Philipp Staemmler, Hansjacob Staemmler
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Bagatelles, Op. 119 (ca. 1822), arr. for Clarinet, Cello and Piano by J. Schöllhorn: No. 7 no title
01:18
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Kilian Herold, Peter-Philipp Staemmler, Hansjacob Staemmler
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Bagatelles, Op. 119 (ca. 1822), arr. for Clarinet, Cello and Piano by J. Schöllhorn: No. 8 Moderato cantabile
01:30
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Kilian Herold, Peter-Philipp Staemmler, Hansjacob Staemmler
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Bagatelles, Op. 119 (ca. 1822), arr. for Clarinet, Cello and Piano by J. Schöllhorn: No. 9 Vivace moderato
00:37
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Kilian Herold, Peter-Philipp Staemmler, Hansjacob Staemmler
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Bagatelles, Op. 119 (ca. 1822), arr. for Clarinet, Cello and Piano by J. Schöllhorn: No. 10 Allegramente
00:13
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Kilian Herold, Peter-Philipp Staemmler, Hansjacob Staemmler
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Bagatelles, Op. 119 (ca. 1822), arr. for Clarinet, Cello and Piano by J. Schöllhorn: No. 11 Andante ma non troppo
01:54
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Kilian Herold, Peter-Philipp Staemmler, Hansjacob Staemmler
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Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Cello in E flat Major, Op. 38 (« Grand Trio »): I Adagio – Allegro con brio
09:33
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Kilian Herold, Peter-Philipp Staemmler, Hansjacob Staemmler
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Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Cello in E flat Major, Op. 38 (« Grand Trio »): II Adagio cantabile
07:30
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Kilian Herold, Peter-Philipp Staemmler, Hansjacob Staemmler
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Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Cello in E flat Major, Op. 38 (« Grand Trio »): III Tempo di Menuetto
03:56
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Kilian Herold, Peter-Philipp Staemmler, Hansjacob Staemmler
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Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Cello in E flat Major, Op. 38 (« Grand Trio »): IV Thema. Andante con Variazioni
07:20
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Kilian Herold, Peter-Philipp Staemmler, Hansjacob Staemmler
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Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Cello in E flat Major, Op. 38 (« Grand Trio »): V Scherzo. Allegro molto e vivace
03:38
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Kilian Herold, Peter-Philipp Staemmler, Hansjacob Staemmler
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Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Cello in E flat Major, Op. 38 (« Grand Trio »): VI Andante con moto alla Marcia – Presto
07:35
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Kilian Herold, Peter-Philipp Staemmler, Hansjacob Staemmler
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