Schubert’s Final Piano Sonatas, Part Two

Jonathan Biss, piano

Sunday, March 24, 2024
1:30 pm
CALDERWOOD HALL

PROGRAM

Franz Schubert - Impromptu in A-flat Major, D. 935, No. 2 (1827)
Franz Schubert - Sonata in A Major, D. 959 (1828)
Alvin Singleton - new solo work (2024)
Co-commissioned by the Gardner Museum

Alvin Singleton is one of America’s foremost composers, with music commissioned and performed by the symphony orchestras of Boston, Pittsburgh, Houston, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Detroit, Rotterdam Paris, and Cologne, as well as a long list of superb international ensembles. The Gardner Museum is delighted to help to commission this new work as a contrasting companion to Schubert’s heartbreaking penultimate sonata, written in the last year of his life.

Photo Credit: Lithograph of Franz Schubert by Josef Kriehuber, 1846, Austrian National Library.

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This concert is the annual Coogan Concert made possible by Deborah W. Coogan and is in memory of her late husband Peter Weston Coogan

Music at the Gardner is supported by Nora McNeely Hurley / Manitou Fund. Hemenway & Barnes LLP is the lead corporate sponsor of the Weekend Concert Series. The Museum thanks its generous concert donors: The Coogan Concert in memory of Peter Weston Coogan; Fitzpatrick Family Concert; James Lawrence Memorial Concert; Alford P. Rudnick Memorial Concert; David Scudder in memory of his wife, Marie Louise Scudder; Wendy Shattuck Young Artist Concert; and Willona Sinclair Memorial Concert. The piano is dedicated as the Alex d’Arbeloff Steinway. The harpsichord was generously donated by Dr. Robert Barstow in memory of Marion Huse, and its care is endowed in memory of Dr. Barstow by The Barstow Fund. Music at the Gardner is also supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.