The Rise and Fall of 19th Century Vienna
- JK
- May 25, 2025
- 2 min read
Saturday, August 8, 2026 at 7:30 pm
$30 per ticket
The 48th concert in the York Place Musical Salon.
About the Event
Step into the glittering world of 19th‑century Vienna, where music pulsed as both the city’s heartbeat and its fate. Pianist Jannie Burdeti invites you on a journey through Vienna’s golden age of Romantic expression, opening with piano transcriptions of Franz Schubert’s beautiful songs and his masterful Sonata in A major, D. 959 - a work of lyrical intimacy and monumental scope.
The program then turns toward Vienna’s uneasy descent into modernity: Adolf Schulz‑Evler’s dazzling reimagining of Johann Strauss’s beloved Blue Danube Waltz and Maurice Ravel’s whirling La Valse, evoking the frenzied death‑throes of imperial society. Together, these works trace Vienna's rise and unraveling - a musical testament to Vienna’s enduring resonance long after its empire faded.
Program:
Schubert: Song transcriptions for piano (Liszt)
Schubert: Sonata in A major, D. 959
Schulz-Evler: Arabesques on Johann Strauss’s 'By the Beautiful Blue Danube'
Ravel: La Valse
Tickets will be available on Monday, June 8, 2026 at 9:00 am on this page.
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About Jannie Burdeti
Dr. Jannie Sing-Yen Burdeti made her New York debut at the age of 14, appearing in the Young Virtuosos Gala Concert in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Since then, she has performed as a soloist with orchestras and at festivals in the US, Canada, Germany, Austria, Holland, and Italy. Also an accomplished chamber musician, she has collaborated with luminaries such as Roberto Diaz, Norman Fischer, Paul Hersh, Axel Srauss, Joseph Swensen, and the Calder Quartet.
Dr. Burdeti was a recipient of the DAAD German Exchange Grant for research on European Contemporary Music, which funded a year of study in Freiburg, Germany. During that time, she performed chamber music works by a range of notable German composers, among them, Günter Bialas, Harald Genzmer, Nicholas A. Huber, Wolfgang Rihm, Matthias Spahlinger, and Jörg Widmann.
In recent seasons, she has presented recitals in diverse halls such as the Ruïnekerk in Bergen, Holland, the Telekom Headquarters in Bonn, Germany, and the Steifel Theater in Salinas, Kansas. The Südkurier Newpaper called her playing “not only extraordinary technically, but delivered the composer’s intention masterfully.”
Dr. Burdeti received her Doctorate of Musical Arts from the Johns Hopkins University's Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with Boris Slutsky. She has also received mentorship and guidance from Felix Gottlieb (pupil of Emil Gilels), Meng-Chieh Liu (Curtis Institute of Music), Leon Fleisher (Peabody Conservatory), Hung-Kuan Chen (Juilliard School and Yale University), Arie Vardi (Hannover Hochschule für Musik), and Menahem Pressler (founder of the Beaux Arts Trio).
A deeply committed educator, Dr. Burdeti has served on the faculty at the Peabody Conservatory's Preparatory Division in Baltimore, MD and the Music City Academy in San Francisco, CA. She currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia.
This will be Jannie's second appearance in the York Place Musical Salon.