Beethoven on the Bluff: The Early Years Concludes with Violin/Cello II

The Mary Pappert School of Music will present Violin/Cello II, the fourth and final installment of the Beethoven on the Bluff: The Early Years concert series, on Sunday, Feb. 16, at 3 p.m. in the PNC Recital Hall.

The Beethoven duo cycle continues at this performance with Sonata #3 for Cello and Piano, op. 69 as well as Three Sonatas for Violin and Piano, op. 30 (#6-8). Beethoven composed the violin sonatas when he was facing the personal crisis of his increasing deafness and the professional challenge of breaking out of his extremely successful early music to create a style that was even more dramatic and poetic.

Concert performers will include David Allen Wehr, pianist and the Jack W. Geltz Distinguished Piano Chair in the music school; Noah Bendix-Balgley, violinist and concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO); and Anne Martindale Williams, principal cellist for the PSO.

Beethoven on the Bluff: The Early Years is the first season of a two-year concert series presenting the major piano chamber works of renowned composer Ludwig van Beethoven. The second season, Beethoven On the Bluff: The Late Years, will be comprised of four concerts focusing on the music Beethoven wrote during the later portion of his career.

A $10 donation is suggested for admission to Violin/Cello II. For more information, call the School of Music at 412.396.6083 or visit www.duq.edu/beethoven.