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A great piano moment: star pianist Martin Stadtfeld inspires in the Tölz Mühlfeldkirche

2022-05-03T09:07:51.075Z


A great piano moment: star pianist Martin Stadtfeld inspires in the Tölz Mühlfeldkirche Created: 05/03/2022, 11:00 am A Steinway grand piano in the sanctuary: This is something new in the Mühlfeld Church, said the parish priest Peter Demmelmair when welcoming pianist Martin Stadtfeld. © BOCK Martin Stadtfeld delighted his audience in the Tölzer Mühlfeldkirche on Friday evening. There was a stan


A great piano moment: star pianist Martin Stadtfeld inspires in the Tölz Mühlfeldkirche

Created: 05/03/2022, 11:00 am

A Steinway grand piano in the sanctuary: This is something new in the Mühlfeld Church, said the parish priest Peter Demmelmair when welcoming pianist Martin Stadtfeld.

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Martin Stadtfeld delighted his audience in the Tölzer Mühlfeldkirche on Friday evening.

There was a standing ovation for the star pianist.

Bad Tölz – He is best known as a Bach player, but Beethoven piano sonatas were the focus of his concert on Friday evening in the Tölz Mühlfeldkirche.

Martin Stadtfeld was not only enthusiastic about the white and black keys.

The 41-year-old also proved to be a charming emcee who had interesting things to say about each of the five compositions by the Bonn and Viennese master.

After three encores, the pianist received a standing ovation from the predominantly local audience, who could look forward to a great piano moment.

A diverse audience listened to the pianist

Whether you are a ten-year-old newcomer to music, a hobby pianist, a professional musician or a long-serving concert visitor: the organiser, city councilor Gabriele Frei, understood how to use her personal commitment to win over a mixed audience for the unique musical event, which was gratefully received after a long "dry spell".

It was actually supposed to take place in the Franziskanerkirche, but it was finally implemented in the smaller Mühlfeldkirche, where Gabriele Frei's mother Christl Frei and her comrades-in-arms have been responsible for concerts and the musical arrangement of the services for decades.

Father Walter Frei, longtime chairman of the Tölz Singing and Music School, was also involved.

A diverse audience found its way to the concert and gratefully accepted the unique musical event.

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You can find more current news from the region around Bad Tölz at Merkur.de/Bad Tölz.

Stadtfeld is one of the greats of piano music

A mighty Steinway grand piano in the sanctuary, specially brought from Munich, is an innovation, said the city pastor Peter Demmelmair in his introductory words.

The artist of the evening, Martin Stadtfeld, has been one of the greats of piano music for years, has won international prizes and is considered the Bach player of his generation.

The lanky man from Koblenz apparently inherited his love of low piano stools from the Canadian Glenn Gould, who was also successful with Bach.

Unbelievable how he clamped his long legs between the keyboard and the pedals and still let them almost float.

The star pianist delighted the audience with his performances

From the early Beethoven (“The Rage Over the Lost Penny”), the program led via the first movement of the Moonlight Sonata to one of the best-known and greatest sonatas in piano literature, the “Appassionata”.

When Stadtfeld thundered the last chords through the church at an insane speed, even drowning out the bells ringing in the evening and the occasional traffic noise, there was no stopping the listeners.

The short but intense evening ended with three encores

Three encores followed, in which Stadtfeld fortunately did not leave the audience in the dark for long about what he had conjured up with his nimble fingers: a toccata by the 17-year-old Sergei Prokofiev with echoes of the much later "Minimal Music", an (extremely) fast-paced one Bach and Cleopatra's aria from Handel's opera "Giulio Cesare", which perfectly ended the short but intense evening.

The audience went home satisfied, and the sympathetic pianist seemed to like it too.

The most important finding: there is certainly room for sophisticated concerts in the spa town.

However, such events are by no means a sure-fire success, but rather a risk that Gabriele Frei has successfully faced - hopefully not for the last time.

By Karl Bock

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Source: merkur

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