Concert Performances

Friedrich Gernsheim’s “Zu einem Drama”

TŌN, conducted by Leon Botstein, performs Friedrich Gernsheim’s Zu einem Drama in a livestreamed concert from the Fisher Center at Bard on September 19, 2026.

0:15 Allegro moderato (moderately fast)
8:26 Andante amoroso e molto sostenuto quasi adagio (moderately slow and loving, very sustained)
12:02 Allegro moderato (moderately fast)

Friedrich Gernsheim
Born: 7/17/1839 in Worms, Germany
Died: 9/11/1916 at age 77 in Berlin

Written: 1902, at age 63
Premiere: 10/24/1910 in Berlin; Arthur Nikisch conductor
>Read concert notes by musicologist Peter Laki