Upcoming lecture recitals
(171) Thursday, 23. October 2025, Konzerthaus Berlin, Musikclub, 20 hShe saved her life by fleeing to Minsk - The composer Edi Tyrmand
Edi (Eta) Tyrmand (1917-2008) spent her youth in Warsaw. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, she and her husband fled to the Soviet Union. She continued her music studies, which she had begun in Warsaw, at the Minsk Conservatory. There she met other young refugee Polish-Jewish musicians, one of them was Mieczysław Weinberg. Tyrmand survived the war years of 1941-1945 in Kyrgyzstan. After the war, she spent the rest of her long life in Minsk, where she enjoyed great renown as a composer, pianist, and professor at the conservatory. Tyrmand was the first woman to be admitted to the Belarusian Composers' Union, and her works, particularly her chamber music, are still part of the concert repertoire in Belarus today. However, her heartfelt and colorful music has never been performed outside the former Soviet Union.
Sonata for violin and piano No. 1 (1950)
Suite for piano (1963)
Sonata for violin and piano No. 2 (1972)
Linus Roth, violin
Jascha Nemtsov, piano
The Konzerthaus dramaturge Johannes Schultz talks with Jascha Nemtsov about the historical context and the composer's life.
Concert supported by Bareva Foundation
Following lecture recitals
(172) 18. December 2025: Gustav Brecher: Conductor, composer, renovator. A Jewish musician's life between glory and exitus
(173) 27. January 2026: Performance ban and internal emigration - The composer Ilse Fromm-Michaels
(174) 26. March 2026: Wilhelm Grosz (1894-1939): Musical versatility in dramatic times
(175) 7. May 2026: The son of a rabbi: Josef Tal - Piano music from 70 years
Entrance fee: 8 Euros
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