For the “Women Composers” cycle, the “The Romantic Quartet” concert will be held at the Palazzetto Bru Zane on April 27, 2023. The quartet composed of Alexandre Pascal (violin), Léa Hennino (viola), Héloïse Luzzati (cello) and Célia Oneto Bensaid (piano) performs melodies by Clémence de Grandval, Rita Strohl and Marie Jaëll.
The piano quartet was very popular in France in the second half of the nineteenth century. Initially composers were inspired by the works of Mendelssohn and Schumann, but later a typically French form emerged, under the influence of Camille Saint-Saëns and Gabriel Fauré in particular. The piano quartet permits a more flexible approach to composing for four voices than is possible with the string quartet, the serious genre par excellence. So, when Marie Jaëll (1846-1925) decided to set aside her career as a virtuoso in order to devote herself to composition, she naturally turned to the piano quartet, and in 1876 became one of the first women composers to have a work performed at the Société Nationale de Musique. Rita Strohl (1865-1941) followed suit, composing her piano quartet when she was only twenty years old.
Website: www.bru-zane.com
Location: Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice
Schedule: April 27, 2023
