Guitar and lute evening

In this concert, Siegen guitarist Dominik Jung will play four instruments: on the vihuela, archlute, baroque guitar and concert guitar, he will take the audience on a tour of important stages in guitar and lute music over the past five centuries. Beginning around 1500 in the Renaissance with the beginnings of delicate, polyphonic instrumental music in Spain, which then, around a hundred years later, reached its first peak in England with the compositions of John Dowland. The court culture established by Louis XIV is reflected in the countless suites by the French court composer Robert de Visée, who dedicated two books of guitar music to "his king". After other seminal works by Mauro Giuliani and Heitor Villa-Lobos, the concert ends with the "Gran Sarabanda" (2018) by Cuban composer Leo Brouwer, in which the 500-year-old theme of "La Folia" is impressively varied.