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“The first musicians here for the next 300 years”: An ensemble from the Freising Music School was given the honor of inaugurating the new stage in the Asamsaal – with musical samples from the Asam Sinfonietta. © Lehmann
It was a great-great performance: Because the Asam building in Freising is not yet finished, the Asam Sinfonietta was performed for the first time in the Luitpoldhalle. The Asam stage was inaugurated beforehand anyway.
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- There was an extremely reverential mood on Saturday when Freising's mayor Tobias Eschenbacher entered the sun-drenched Asamsaal alongside the former music school director and composer Martin Keeser to awaken the stage from its Sleeping Beauty slumber. One thing was definitely guaranteed: pure goosebumps.
Unfortunately, the Asam building is not quite finished yet
Keeser had been working on an Asam Sinfonietta for around two years, which was actually supposed to have been premiered at the ceremonial opening of the Asam building on the first weekend in April. But because the latent construction site character can still be seen there, the premiere took place on Sunday in the Luitpoldhalle (
report to follow
). “Of course we want the Sinfonietta to be performed again in the Asamsaal,” emphasized Eschenbacher on Saturday. “I’m particularly looking forward to that.”
Ceremonial handover: Under the eyes of several guests, composer Martin Keeser (r.) presented the score to Mayor Tobias Eschenbacher and cultural officer Susanne Günther in the Asamsaal on Saturday. © Lehmann
The Sinfonietta was brought to the Asamsaal, essentially home, first: the score was handed over to the city there on Saturday. There were also the first musical samples from Keeser's dreams about the fresco cycle by Hans Georg Asam.
The first audience - and the first concert
“Today is a very special day,” said a visibly happy Eschenbacher in the Asamsaal, which actually looks as if a concert could take place there at any moment. “We are the first audience today - and this is the first concert here.” Since Keeser's Asam Sinfonietta deals musically with the hall's frescoes, it was a matter of the heart for everyone involved, at least the official handover of the score from the composer to the city to have small musical samples take place in the Asamsaal.
“It was now ten years ago when we had to secure the hall ceiling,” Eschenbacher remembered, and also remembered that the cultural advisor at the time, Hubert Hierl, who died in 2021, had brought a very special suggestion to the committee at the time. “Martin could compose something for us for the reopening,” said Hierl. “And Martin did it,” said Eschenbacher.
Asam Sinfonietta is intended to be fun for musicians and listeners
Keeser himself explained: "I've been tinkering with it for two years now, trying out a lot of things and rejecting a few things." It was "quite a bit of work." “But I was really looking forward to it,” emphasized Keeser, before handing the score to the mayor in front of the invited guests. It was the first time he had written such a large piece for a large orchestra, which he compared to painting a large painting instead of drawing individual works.
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“The work should be fun for the musicians and also for the listeners,” Keeser explained to the FT. He interwoven baroque, highly romantic and modern elements into it. The goal: The listener should wander from fresco to fresco with the music and continue to dream. With three short pieces, the orchestra's small wind ensemble presented the work as a great-great performance, inaugurating the Asam stage and causing pure goosebumps. Eschenbacher's conclusion was clear: "This is huge - and you are the first musicians here for the next 300 years."