One moment you are celebrated and the next you are forgotten. This is what happened to Wölfl, who lived from Mozart’s Vienna Quartets, KV168-173 (1773) to the premiere of Beethoven’s 8th Symphony (1812). His musical career took place in between. But until recently, Wölfl’s posthumous career was less successful than that of his two colleagues. This is now going to change. After our programme maker Thijs Bonger, in Genius Music Friends, explained how Haydn and Mozart were on each other’s nerves artistically, and while in a Stubborn Student the relationship between Haydn and Beethoven is still on the cutting table, it is now the turn of piano virtuoso Wölfl. Will it be a revival or a rediscovery? On 7 September, a new episode of An Early Evening Stroll, with a special interactive bonus that we will not give away here. So listen up, on Tuesday 7 September between 7:00 pm and 8:00 pm.
