Sabine Liebner | John Cage | Etudes Australes
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- Time of day8:00 until 9:15 PM
- Target groupAdults
- Registration€ 25 | 18 | tickets available here
Description
John Cage | „Etudes Australes“ | Random selection
The creation of the “Etudes Australes” in 1974 marked the beginning of a collection of virtuoso etudes.
The highly complex piano composition is divided into four individual books with a total of 32 etudes. John Cage based it on maps of the southern night sky ("Atlas Australis"), from which planetary locations are selected by means of random operations and translated into tones.
These planets, translated into notes, were notated in two staves – for both the right and left hand, always covering the entire keyboard. The moment of chance thus becomes an aesthetic category in this work.
Cage’s composition has its only reality in the moment of performance. Only the present can ever be heard, in this specific case a constantly mutating kaleidoscope of sound that makes no claim to repeatability.
“I became interested in writing difficult music, etudes, because of the world system which often seems to many of us hopeless. I thought that were a musician to give the example in public of doing the impossible that it might inspire someone who was struck by that performance to change the world.” John Cage
Experience Liebner’s interpretation of Cage’s piano works in Cy Twombly's Roses Gallery.
The concert accompanies the exhibition “Five Friends. John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly.”
The museum café is open for you from 6 pm.
Sabine Liebner
Sabine Liebner, internationally renowned pianist of New Music, is considered one of the most important interpreters of John Cage’s piano works and is one of the few musicians worldwide to have performed Cage’s “Etudes Australes” in their entirety. Her extensive discography, radio recordings and invitations to international festivals testify to her extraordinary artistic work, which has been honored with numerous awards (including WIRE REWIND, fff TÉLÉRAMA, scherzo Disco Excepcional, Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, OPUS Klassik, awards from The New York Times, The Guardian, Goethe-Institut, multiple nominations for the German Record Critics' Award and OPUS Klassik).
