Baroque benefactors

"Lucie Horsch shines on the recorder in concerts with the Orchestra of the 18th Century"

After last season's resounding success and a beautifully received album, Lucie Horsch is back with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. They present and dazzling new Baroque program with concertos, chamber music and orchestral works by Georg Friedrich Handel, Arcangelo Corelli, Domenico Scarlatti, and the Swedish composer Johann Helmich Roman in the leading roles.

Like many of their contemporaries, these composers were supported and maintained by wealthy women. Sometimes these patrons were connected to the court, sometimes they were wealthy elites from England, Germany, Sweden, or -yes- the Netherlands. But what drove these women? Why did they seek to connect with music, art and culture in this way? In this concert the focus is not only on the music and the men who composed it, but also on the women who made it all possible and in this way secured themselves a place in history.