Beethoven i Schubert

A piano recital of works by Beethoven and Schubert, performed by pianist Hélène Grimaud at the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona.

Hélène Grimaud is a French-born pianist with an international career devoted to solo piano and the orchestral repertoire. Her name appears on this programme as the principal performer of a concert that brings together two central figures of Central European music.

Beethoven (1770-1827) and Schubert (1797-1828) shared the city of Vienna in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Beethoven took the piano sonata and concerto to an unprecedented scale, while Schubert developed the lied and a lyrical piano writing of great harmonic sensitivity. The programme places both composers in dialogue through their keyboard works.

The evening takes place at the Palau de la Música Catalana, a Modernist building designed by Lluís Domènech i Montaner and inaugurated in 1908, which hosts concerts, exhibitions and cultural activities in Barcelona.