Ravinia 2019, Issue 7, Week 14

7:30 PM TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2019 MARTIN THEATRE SIR JAMES GALWAY, flute LADY JEANNE GALWAY, flute MEMBERS OF THE AIZURI QUARTET MIHO SAEGUSA, violin AYANE KOZASA, viola KAREN OUZOUNIAN, cello WELZ KAUFFMAN, piano DOPPLER Andante and Rondo (arr. Sir James Galway) Sir James Galway; Lady Jeanne Galway; Karen Ouzounian; Welz Kauffman BEETHOVEN Serenade Entrata: Allegro Tempo ordinario d’un Menuetto Allegro molto Andante con Variazioni Allegro scherzando e vivace Adagio Allegro vivace e dis in volta Sir James Galway; Miho Saegusa; Ayane Kozasa –Intermission– HAYDN “London” Trio No. 1 * Allegro moderato Andante Finale: Vivace Sir James Galway; Lady Jeanne Galway; Karen Ouzounian MOZART Flute Quartet No. 1 Allegro Adagio Rondeau Sir James Galway; Miho Saegusa; Ayane Kozasa; Karen Ouzounian * First performance at Ravinia Ravinia expresses its appreciation for the generous support of Featured Sponsor The Negaunee Foundation . FRANZ DOPPLER (1821–83) Andante and Rondo, op. 25 (arranged by Sir James Galway) Franz Doppler was the most distinguished member in a family of Polish-Hungarian mu- sicians. His father, Joseph, an oboist in Warsaw and Vienna and a composer, taught Franz to play flute. His younger brother Karl also became a respected flutist, conductor, and occasional composer. Karl’s son, Árpád, developed into a top-ranking pianist who taught at the Stuttgart Conservatory and briefly at the Grand Conser- vatory in New York City. Franz made his public recital debut at age 13. Four years later, he joined the German Theater in Pest as principal flutist and subsequently held the same position with the Hungarian National Theater. During these Hungarian years, Dop- pler composed numerous ethnically inspired compositions, including operas, orchestral and chamber works, piano music, and orchestral transcriptions of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies. Doppler moved to Vienna in 1858, as principal flutist of the court opera orchestra and conduc- tor of the opera ballet. He became professor of flute at the Vienna Conservatory in 1865, con- tinuing to write operas and flute compositions, such as the Andante and Rondo, op. 25, for two flutes and piano. Sir James Galway’s arrange- ment adds a cello to the performance. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827) Serenade in D major, op. 25 Once his reputation as a formidable piano vir- tuoso was established in Vienna, Beethoven set his sights on achieving comparable fame as a composer. Lessons continued with the city’s foremost musicians (Haydn, Albrechtsberger, and Salieri), while Beethoven planned a daily composition regimen around peak creative pe- riods. His first two opus numbers from the mid- 1790s—the three piano trios of op. 1 and the three piano sonatas of op. 2—stick to familiar Franz Doppler (1853) RAVINIA MAGAZINE | SEPTEMBER 3 – SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 102