Concert at 10:00 with the Kuss Quartett and Quatuor Diotima
Concert at 12:30 with Quatuor Diotima

The classical string quartet, as it appears in Mozart's A major Quartet K. 464 - the fifth of his six "Haydn Quartets", which the young Beethoven particularly appreciated - is given an expressionist guise in Béla Bartók's second quartet, which incorporates "imaginary folklore". Helmut Lachenmann's "Gran Torso", on the other hand, liberates the genre from all conventionally "beautiful" string sounds and replaces them with his "musique concrète instrumentale". A major focus is on the "mechanical and energetic conditions of sound production". "According to musicologist Frank Hilberg, "the edges are scanned, those of the instrument (beyond the strings, in the pegbox, at the edge of the body) and those of the sound (between the finest noise and buzzing, creaking pressure)." Gran Torso" will be performed by Quatuor Diotima, which specializes in contemporary music and will also introduce the work.