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Jean Rondeau, Harpsichord

Princeton University Concerts Debut

When

Wednesday, November 8, 2023, 6:00 PM EST, 9:00 PM EST

Where

Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall

Tickets

General: $40 | Student: $10 | Princeton University Student: Free through Passport to the Arts.

This event is currently available only for Princeton University Student Early Bird Ticket buyers.
Single tickets will go on sale to the general public online at 11AM on Tuesday, August 1, 2023, and by phone at 11AM on Tuesday, September 5, 2023.

Rondeau is a wizard. Forget grace, forget melancholy – this is brilliance.”

—Gramophone

Performances Up Close

About the Event

Part of our Performances Up Close series, audience is seated onstage alongside the musicians in an hour-long program.

Whatever your preconceptions of the harpsichord may be, Jean Rondeau will undoubtedly shatter them all as he takes us to Parnassus, the mythological mountain home of the Muses. Leading the charge of a new generation of keyboardists (including as a founding member of the Jupiter Ensemble, which made a rousing debut in our 2022-23 season), he makes his inaugural PUC appearance with a program exploring the stunning range of the harpsichord. Through works spanning the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—much of it originally written for the piano—this “champion of his instrument” (Le Temps) asks us to consider what piano repertoire might illuminate about the harpsichord, and what the harpsichord might reveal about music composed for the piano. As he explains is, “my idea was never to take some piano pieces and find a way to make them work on the harpsichord…my idea was more to build something around musical languages which are common to both instruments.” Sit onstage with this trailblazing artist as you get to know this music and this instrument in a completely new way.

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Program

  • Gradus ad Parnassum
  • Johann Joseph Fux

    Harpeggio in G Major, E114

  • Joseph Haydn

    Haydn Sonata No. 31 in A Flat Major, Hob XVI: 46

  • Muzio Clementi

    Gradus ad Parnassum Op. 44

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Prelude No. 2 for Piano or Organ, Op. 39
    Prelude in F Minor, WoO 55

  • W.A. Mozart

    Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major, K. 545
    Fantasia No. 3 in D Minor K. 397


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