From the Bewigged to Poland – Gil Sullivan Piano Recital
Time: 2024/10/08 (Tue.) 19:30 Location: NYCU Music Performance Hall (Guangfu Campus), 2nd Floor, Student Activity Center Ticket: 150、300
My recital programme begins with Bach and Mozart, followed by the 6 Chopin Polonaises. Bach and Mozart lived in the 18th Century, where wearing wigs was compulsory. Not a fashion but a societal conformity dictated by the aristocracy, this concept flowed into the limited, confined freedoms of music, where personal expression and experimentation were frowned upon by kings and queens, etc.
In Chopin’s era, nobody donned wigs, meaning musical expression and experimentation were free and unconstrained, and the passionate nationalism of these Polonaises (‘Polonaise’ derives from the word Poland) in Bach and Mozart’s “bewigged era” was unthinkable!
PROGRAM
BACH: Partita No.1 in B flat, BWV825 MOZART: Sonata No.6 in D, K284 “Dürnitz” CHOPIN: 6 Polonaises