You are going to hear:

Igor Strawinsky: The Soldier’s Tale
Viviane Hagner (violin), Karl-Heinz Steffens (clarinet), Karoline Zurl (bassoon), Bertold Stecher (trumpet), Christhard Gössling (trombone), Uxía Martinez Botana (contrabass), Jan Schlichte (drums), Itay Tiran (narrator)

Performed by the Neue Musikverein Berlin conducted by Karl-Heinz Steffens.

Igor Stravinsky’s Tale of the Soldier (L’Histoire du soldat, trans. into German as Geschichte vom Soldaten) could also be heard at the 1923 Bauhaus Week. It is centred around a soldier who trades his violin to the devil for a book that promises wealth. He succeeds in this but does not find happiness. On the contrary, in the end he finds himself bound by a pact with the devil, although Stravinsky leaves the final outcome open. The composer and his music were not unknown at the Bauhaus, as can be recognised in the works of Bauhaus student Heinrich Neuy or in the emphatic statement of architect Max Bill: “picasso, jacobi, chaplin, eiffel, freud, stravinski, edison etc. actually also belong at the bauhaus.”

A concert ticket costs 15 € plus surcharge. Please order your ticket here.

The bauhaus music weekend is directed by Michal Friedländer, Karl-Heinz Steffens and Kai Hinrich Müller in cooperation with the Neuer Musikverein Berlin.

The concert takes place at the Meistersaal at Potsdamer Platz, Köthener Straße 38, 10963 Berlin.