Niobe langmaack violin
Gottlieb wallisch piano

Programme

Franz Schubert

Impromptus, Op. 90 (D. 899)

Impromptus, Op. 142 (D. 935)

Thomas Christian David

Piano Sonata No. 2 (1996)

Allegro

Very quiet, Con sentimento, Allegro ma non troppo

- INTERMISSION -

Thomas Christian David

Three Intermezzi for violin and piano (1963)

Johannes Brahms

Sonata for violin and piano in D minor, Op. 108

Allegro

Adagio

Un poco presto e con sentimento

Presto agitato

The benefit concert for MOKI Vienna and the Austrian Coeliac Disease Association will be held as part of the Project 100 - to mark the 100th anniversary of the Upper Austrian composer Thomas Christian David (1925-2025). During the interval there will be the opportunity to enjoy a Come Together and exchange ideas with MOKI employees, representatives of the Austrian Coeliac Disease Association and the Association for Contemporary Music.

David was born on 22 December 1925 in Wels as the son of the composer Johann Nepomuk David. He worked as a flautist, pianist, choirmaster, conductor, composer and teacher. Throughout his life, he actively supported students from all over the world as a teacher and enabled many of them to study music in Vienna.

His diverse compositions, including chamber music for strings and winds, orchestral music, solo concertos, organ and choral works as well as works for voice were performed in Europe, Asia and the USA. He has also composed two operas Atossa (1967) and The road to Emmaus (1982) and the oratorio The song of man.

David has also been honoured with numerous awards, including the Vienna Promotion Prize 1973 and the State Culture Prize of the Office of the Upper Austrian State Government. He is also the recipient of the Cross of Honour for Science and Art 1st Class and the Grand Cross of Honour in Gold of the Republic of Austria.

"If music is not understandable, it does not fulfil its purpose. Music must be entertaining in the highest sense of the word. The point of music is to entertain the human soul and spirit to the highest level." - Thomas Christian David

"Davids second piano sonata was completed in Tehran in 1996. It is in two movements: a very substantial first movement, which can be described as extremely serious, is followed by the second movement, which is divided into three parts. In a relaxed structure, it presents a slow, calm section and a slightly agitated intermezzo section, after which a fugue leads to an impressive conclusion in the final section," says Gottlieb Wallisch.

"Three Intermezzi for violin and piano Lukas David - brother of Thomas Christian David - had a busy concert schedule with his brother as a pianist during the years of its composition. Inspired by their joint performances, David composed the Intermezziwhich have been recorded several times over the years and interpreted by a wide variety of pianists and violinists," says Lukas David.

Organised by the Association for the promotion of contemporary music. Box office open from 17:30, cash only. Tickets