2016-02-07

Enchanting microtones in the 16th &17th century

Johannes Keller, harpsichordist and specialist in rare meantone music with more than the usual twelve tones per octave, comes to Amsterdam from Basel by invitation of the Huygens-Fokker Foundation to give a unique concert. Here he will perform both the 31-tone organ and his own ‘chromatic-enharmonic’ harpsichord. The programme features several composers, such as Georg Muffat, Ascanio Mayone, and Nicola Vicentino, who in the 16th and 17th centuries attempted to expand meantone tuning so that modulations to previously unreachable keys became possible. The use of these ‘new’ tones occasionally resulted in experiments producing unusual harmonic transitions. A highlight of this concert is that the renowned German composer and cellist Caspar Johannes Walter will compose a new work for violin and 31-tone organ. Johannes Keller will be musically accompanied in several works by violinist Eva Saladin.

Programme

Michelangelo Rossi (1601–1656)
Toccata Settima
Toccate e corenti d’intavolature d’organo e cimbalo, Rome 1657

Ascanio Mayone (1570–1627)
Example compositions for the “Sambuca lincea”, described by Colonna and Stella

Giovanni Antonio Leoni (voor 1600 – na 1651)
Sonata
Sonate di Violino a voce sola … Libro primo, Op. 3, Rome 1562

Nicola Vicentino (1511–1576)
“Musica prisca caput”
L’antica musica ridotta alla prattica moderna, Rome 1555

Gioanpietro del Buono (vor 1641 – vor 1658)
Sonata über “Ave Maris Stella”
Canoni, oblighi, et sonate in varie maniere sopra l’Ave Maris Stella, Palermo 1641

Caspar Johannes Walter (1964)
Studies for the Fokker-Organ and Violin

Galeazzo Sabbatini (1597–1662)
“Derelinquat impius viam suam”
Athanasius Kircher, Musurgia universalis, 1650

Nicola Vicentino
“Musica prisca caput”
L’antica musica ridotta alla prattica moderna, Rome 1555

Georg Muffat (1653–1704)
Violinsonate, Prague 1677

Johannes Keller and Eva Saladin at the 31-tone organ (Fokker organ) in 2016

Support

This programme was made possible with the support of: Stichting Dioraphte, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Van den Berch van Heemstede Stichting, Stichting Fonds voor de Geld- en Effectenhandel.

Also the SNS REAAL Fonds – renamed Fonds 21 (renovation Fokker organ), Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds (renovation Fokker organ), Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ and Huygens-Fokker Foundation.

Fokker organ concert

Sunday 7 February 2016, 11:00 a.m.
Admission fee €12.50 (€10.00 reduced price)

Small Hall, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ
Piet Heinkade 1, 1019 BR Amsterdam

Performers

Johannes Keller, Fokker organ / harpsichord
Eva Saladin, violin