Bach Hauer Scelsi Cage

Weiping Lin (AT/TW)

Sat Sep 7, 2019, 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm
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St. Florian Monastery

Weiping Lin (violin) presents four different compositional approaches by composers who, in their individual ways, reflected on questions of musical order and its relation to the wider contexts of human existence.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)

Präludium
Loure
Gigue
(from the Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006, 1720)

 

Josef Matthias Hauer (1883 – 1959)

Zwölftonspiel “Tanz für Violine Allein” (Dance for Solo Violin) 1954
Zwölftonspiel für Violine Allein mit einer Zwölftonreihe von Dr. Emil Weidinger (Twelve-tone Piece for Solo Violin with a Twelve-tone Row by Dr. Emil Weidinger)

 

Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988)

L’âme ouverte (1973)

 

John Cage (1912 – 1992)

Freeman Etude Nr. 12 (1977 – 80)

Bach Hauer Scelsi Cage/Weiping Lin (AT/TW), Credit: Weiping Lin

 

Short curatorial statement:
Weiping Lin (violin) presents four different compositional approaches by composers who, in their individual ways, reflected on questions of musical order and its relation to the wider contexts of human existence..

 

Project Credits:

  • Weiping Lin – Violin

Biography:

Weiping Lin (AT/TW) is a well-respected violinist for contemporary music in Austria. Both as a soloist – she recorded the entire works for solo violin by Giacinto Scelsi for Mode Records (Scelsi Edition 10), as well as a chamber musician. Weiping Lin won prizes at several international violin competitions. From her native country Taiwan, she moved to Austria at the age of 15 to continue her music studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She is section leader of the 1st violin of the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna.
http://www.weipinglin.com/