Debussy concert in the Frits Thaulow exhibition
Concerts in the Thaulow exhibition explore impressionist music from Norway and abroad
At the end of the nineteenth century, a new direction in music emerged. Instead of clear forms and a teleological dramatic development, as often found in Romantic music, sound itself was given priority.
Buy ticketConcert
10 June – 21 August
Every Wednesday and Friday
16:00
Permanenten
This music focuses on tone colour, atmosphere and fleeting moments, distancing itself from a more rhetorical or descriptive quality. It does not aim to depict the sea, but to suggest the experience of being by the sea. In this way, it shares affinities with both symbolism and imressionism in poetry and art.
This musical direction is particularly associated with the French composer Claude Debussy. Debussy used whole-tone scales, church modes and unusual harmonies, creating music with a sensuous and ambiguous expression.
We also find many examples of this direction in Norway. Edvard Grieg wrote works in which sound and harmonic colour are given first priority. Similar examples can also be found in the music of Agathe Backer Grøndahl, and later in the works of Alf Hurum, Geirr Tveitt, Pauline Hall and David Monrad Johansen.
The concert lasts 30 minutes.
Concert tickets are valid only in combination with a valid admission ticket.
Frits Thaulow: Vinter ved Simoa, 1873. Nasjonalmuseet. Foto: Børre Høstland.
Frits Thaulow: Doktorhesten, 1988. Kode. Foto: Dag Fosse.
Frits Thaulow: Is på Mesna, 1905. Privat eie. Foto: Øystein Thorvaldsen.
Frits Thaulow: Solnedgang over elven (L’Elle ved Quimperlé) (1901). Olje pa lerret. Grieg Kunstsamling. Foto: Jørgen Larsson.
