175 Jahre Mautterer Tafelklavier - Oboe & Klavier - barock - klassisch – romantisch - fränkisch
A Weißenburg piano tells history
Ten years ago, the Weißenburg Frankenbund group achieved an extraordinary purchase with generous support from regional cultural foundations: a square piano from the workshop of the Weißenburg instrument maker Christian Friedrich Mautterer. After a comprehensive restoration, the instrument is much more than just a museum exhibit. It regularly resonates in concerts, bringing a piece of Weißenburg's music history to life and making it audible.
Christian Friedrich Mautterer was born in 1813 as the son of a long-established butcher family in Weißenburg. After training as a carpenter, his traditional journeyman travels took him to London, where he lived for eleven years. There, he worked, as he later wrote, “besides my actual trade as a carpenter also as an instrument maker.” The striking architectural parallels to another preserved instrument from his workshop suggest that he may have been trained in the renowned London piano manufacturer George Gange & Co.
In 1842, Mautterer returned to his hometown and opened his workshop in a “habitable garden house” on Eichstätter Straße. From here, he supplied Weißenburg and the region with pianos of the latest design, thus bringing a piece of international craftsmanship to the Franconian province.
From the very beginning, the Frankenbund pursued an ambitious goal: the historical instrument was to be not only preserved but also returned to its original purpose – as a sounding testimony of its time. In recent years, the Mautterer piano has already been experienced in collaboration with violin, cello, and voice, but also in a jazz concert and in various solo programs. Now, a new instrumental combination opens up new sonic perspectives.
Together, oboist Beatrix Köhle and pianist Paul Sturm present a varied program with works from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods. Compositions by Alessandro Marcello, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Gaetano Donizetti meet music by two Franconian composers: Georg Jakob (Jacques) Strunz from Pappenheim and Adolph von Henselt from Schwabach. This way, the regional music history again finds its rightful place in the concert program.
Beatrix Köhle, originally from Tyrol, studied the oboe at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz as well as in Dresden and completed her training with honors. Master classes and an intensive engagement with historical performance practice complemented her artistic education. As a sought-after oboist and Baroque oboist, she has worked, among others, with the Philharmonie Neubrandenburg, the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, and the Vogtland Philharmonie. Today, she combines her extensive concert activities with a dedicated teaching position.
Paul Sturm has been known to the Weißenburg audience for many years as a skilled pianist and knowledgeable music mediator. With charm, humor, and well-founded background knowledge, he will guide the audience through the evening.
Thus, the concert promises not only musical enjoyment but also a sonic encounter with an extraordinary testimony of Weißenburg's craftsmanship and cultural history.
An event of the Frankenbund Group Weißenburg in cooperation with the city of Weißenburg.
Admission: 7:00 PM
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