Concert series during the anniversary year✨(1925–2025)

This year the Thiel Gallery celebrates 100 years as a museum with a concert series in three parts specially curated for the anniversary. You can either buy tickets for the entire concert series or for the  individual concert dates: March 18, August 26, November 18.

Together with the string quartet HYMM, we explore the museum as a living work of art with music and the visual arts in inseparable symbiosis. It will be a journey where every note, every brushstroke and every word are intertwined to create an experience beyond the ordinary. Several of the composers were contemporaries of the artists represented in the collections.

BUY TICKET FOR 26/8: CONCERT NO. II: "1925 AND THE JEWISH HERITAGE"

String quartet HYMM: Mattias Rodrick, Michael Crafoord, Ylva Magnusson, Henrik Peterson.¨

Concert No. II – 1925 and the Jewish Heritage

Tuesday, August 26

18:00–approx. 20:00 (incl. intermission)

BUY TICKETS FOR 26/8. CONCERT No. II "1925 AND THE JEWISH HERITAGE"

Fanny Mendelssohn

String Quartet in E flat major (1834)

Erwin Schulhoff

Five Pieces for String Quartet (1925)

Felix Mendelssohn

String Quartet No. 6, Op. 80, D minor (1847)

Like Ernest Thiel, the three composers came from Jewish families and all encountered anti-Semitism in their artistic work. The siblings Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, who were grandchildren of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, were very close to each other and often worked together on their compositions and played each other's works. Erwin Schulhoff's music was banned by the Nazis and he died in a labor camp in 1942.

Participants

Henrik Peterson, violin (member of the Royal Swedish Philharmonic)

Ylva Magnusson, violin (freelance violinist and leader of Chamber Music in Hjorthagen)

Mikael Crafoord, viola (vocal leader in Västerås Sinfonietta)

Mattias Rodrick, cello (freelance, artistic leader of Music in Marabouparken)

Conferee Sophie Allgårdh, curator Thielska Galleriet

About the string quartet HYMM

The four experienced chamber musicians formed the string quartet HYMM in the spring of 2020 when the corona pandemic broke out. With limited opportunities to play for audiences during periods of social distancing in society, a longing was born to delve together into chamber music, music in the small format.

In 2021, HYMM celebrated Stenhammar's 150th anniversary with several concerts and a concert film on YouTube. In 2022, the quartet, with the support of the Swedish Music Agency and the Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation, carried out a concert tour with the Kreutzer Sonata and Intimate Letters by Leoš Janáček together with the actor Hannes Meidal. In 2024, HYMM released a recording on CD and Spotify with music by Haydn and Mozart together with the horn player Johan Ahlin. HYMM is an acronym, formed from the first letters of the musicians' first names.

Price for one concert: 300 SEK

Price for the entire concert series (18 March, 26 August, 18 November 2025): 820 SEK

BUY TICKET FOR 26/8: CONCERT NO. II: "1925 AND THE JEWISH HERITAGE"

Refreshments and snacks during the break:

Mingle plate of 3 small amuses including 1 glass of cava: 250 SEK

Non-alcoholic alternative: 198 SEK

Welcome to pre-book: cafemonikaahlberg@gmail.com

Included in the ticket

Free admission to the museum from 12:00 with the collections of world-class Nordic art in original furnishings from the time.

Unfortunately the museum is not adapted for accessibility and does not have an elevator

Temporary exhibitions, see website.

Café Monika Ahlberg and the museum shop have the same opening hours as the museum

With the support of the Längmanska Kulturfonden

The entire concert series✨ (1925-2025)

Concert No. I – The Nordic Countries 1925

Tuesday, March 18

6:00 PM– approx. 8:00 PM (incl. intermission)

Wilhelm Stenhammar

String Quartet No. 5 in C major, Op. 29, "Serenade" (1910)

Edvin Kallstenius

from String Quartet No. 4, "Divertimento alla Serenata" (1925)

Valborg Aulin

from String Quartet No. 1 in F major (1884)

Edvard Grieg

String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, op. 27 (1878)

Concerto No. II – 1925 and the Jewish Heritage

Wednesday, August 26

6 pm–approx. 8 pm (incl. intermission)

Fanny Mendelssohn

String Quartet in E flat major (1834)

Erwin Schulhoff

Five Pieces for String Quartet (1925)

Felix Mendelssohn

String Quartet No. 6, op. 80, D minor (1847)

Concert No. III – Ernest Thiel and the poem

Tuesday 18 November

6pm–approx. 8pm (incl. intermission)

Leoš Janáček

String Quartet No. 1, "Kreutzer Sonata" (1924)

Rebecca Clarke

Poem for String Quartet (1924)

Hugo Alfvén

Seven poems by Ernest Thiel - arranged for string quartet by HYMM

Ludwig van Beethoven

String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, op. 95, "Serioso"

Supported by the Längmanska Kulturfonden