Kluxen – Bach, Prokofiev, and Mozart
Farquhar at UVic University Farquhar Auditorium, Ring Road, Victoria, BC, CanadaIn 1747, Bach impressed Frederick the Great with The Musical Offering. Years later, Webern was inspired to reframe Bach’s famous 6-voice fugue with a pointillistic pen, illustrating genius at a whole new level. The romantic second movement of the Violin Concerto No. 2 foreshadows Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet—he created both on the cusp of...
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