Honoring Our Heroes with Julia Siciliano | Sun., May 26th, 1:30pm-3:00pm at Brushwood Center, Ryerson Woods

This program contains some of the most reverent, profound music in the solo piano repertoire. Beethoven wrote the Funeral March of his Sonata Op.26 for his longtime patron, Prince Karl Lichnowsky, his conscription in the music reading “on the death of a hero”. Schubert was moved to write this Impromptu over the death of Beethoven, which melodically and sentimentally refers to the first movement of this sonata. On his own deathbed, Schubert wrote his last piano sonata, the D.960, and it is regarded as one of the most sublime sonatas in the entire repertoire. It is a beautiful program to honor a hero, or honor our own daily heroic struggles, and is a testament to the beauty of the human race.

Program

​Franz Schubert: Impromptu, Op. 142 No. 2
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 26
Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata, D.960

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