Streicher Masterclass offered:

Building a bridge between the Classic and Early Romantic playing traditions

Sally Sargent
Alexander Langer

Date: 26 – 28 November 2004

Place: Vienna, Austria

Exact address to be announced later

Course Fee:
Active participants: 150 Euros
Passive participants: 60 Euros

Registration Deadline: November 5, 2004
Registration Fee: 30 Euros
Cancellations before November 10, the full registration fee will be refunded
A limited number of Day Tickets for visitors: 20 euros; please apply before November 26
Final concert of active participants, free, but due to limited space please apply for an invitation by November 25

Course particulars:
- 2 original instruments (Wiener Mechanik) :
Streicher 1819, 4 pedals, 6 Octaves, FF – f4
Streicher 1841, 2 pedals, 6 ½ Octaves, CC – g4
- a limit of 4 active participants
- a limit of 10 passive participants
- each active participant will have two hours of instruction
- each active participant will have the possibility of practicing on the instruments outside of the course time, including on Nov. 25 a day before the course begins.
Languages spoken: English, German, and French
- The tentative schedule will be as follows:
Nov 26 and 27 instruction in the afternoon, possibility to practice in the mornings one evening lecture and discussions with Alexander Langer

- repertoire for each participant will be limited to two works:
one larger work (sonata, complete opus of smaller pieces, fantasie etc.) and one small work (prelude, nocturne, bagatelle, impromptu, Klavierstück etc.)
of Beethoven, Schubert, early Schumann (through op.17), Mendelssohn ( through op 53), Chopin ( through op. 38).
Please feel free to contact me to discuss repertoire if you have questions

Accomodation and Meals
This is the responsibility of the participants
BIO / LEBENSLAUF

Sally Sargent, pianist and teacher, was born in Philadelph ia, PA, USA, and received her first instruction in piano and harmony from her grandfather, the prominent American composer Theodore Chanler.

Her major teachers on piano included Rio Nardi (a pupil of Busoni) and Marcel Ciampi, and she was also a pupil of Nadia Boulanger.
Ms. Sargent received a Bachelor of Music in piano performance from Ithaca College and a teaching certification from the Vienna Conservatory,
and she later worked as an independent assistant to Paul Badura-Skoda when he was professor at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst.

She continues to reside in Vienna, where she is a distinguished independent teacher of piano, interpretation, and harmony.
She has given masterclasses and workshops on modern piano, romantic piano, fortepiano, and harpsichord, and has lectured widely on the history of piano playing.
She is the author of the article “Touch (ii)” in the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

Alexander Langer, Klavierbaumeister,
– 1946, born in Klagenfurt, Austria and grew up in a
Klavierhaus, which his grandfather, Alois Langer, founded in 1896, the same year that the Streicher piano factory closed.
For thirty years, (1960 – 1990) the Langer Klavierhaus was the probably only one to have a set of original etchings of the Streicher Piano Factory
hanging on the walls of its showroom.
-1962 – 1966 Alexander Langer studied piano-building at Stelzhammer’s in Vienna, one of the last hand-crafted production firms of its time.
- from 1968 - worked in the family business.
-1982 - passed his exam for the master craftsman’s diploma and took over the family business.
-1987 - began collecting historical pianos and the technical literature pertaining to them
-1991 –1992 - began restauration work on historical pianos specializing in Streicher pianos.
- ca.1995 - began assembling data on the Streicher family and working on a book about this family of piano builders,  their   instruments and their ideas.
- 2004- continues to bring together more and more “Streichern.”