Shows
Programme
What to expect
Dialogs for an actor by Thomas Höft, based on the conversation books by Ludwig van Beethoven (premiere)
Ludwig van Beethoven: piano music ("The Rage over the Lost Penny", bagatelles, etc.)
Duration: around 70 minutes without a break
Tickets
Prices: EUR 22 / 44 / 66
Reductions:
U27 (for all under 27) & Ö1 Intro: 50 % reduction
Ö1 Club & Standard Abo: 10 % reduction
Content
Beethoven's notebooks
He was the giant of music history and yet a perfectly normal person: Ludwig van Beethoven. When he had almost entirely lost his hearing, he communicated by means of notebooks in which his visitors wrote, while he answered quite normally. What he answered we do not know because it was obviously not necessary to write that down. We still have these conversation notebooks and Thomas Höft has used them to reconstruct conversations -unfathomable, amusing and sometimes also titanic - that could have taken place in Beethoven’s home. And Karl Markovics plays all the parts: the genius and his visitors.