SONIC CHROMAS | Paul Klee: from Bach to the Bauhaus

“Only with music did I always have a good relationship,” Paul Klee once said. The most musical of painters—since he played the violin in chamber ensembles and orchestras—gave visual form to musical rhythm and notation, to polyphony, and to his love for Bach and Mozart. Conversely, he was also highly influential for musicians. Stockhausen, when giving Boulez Klee’s Bauhaus teaching notes, remarked that they were the best manual on composition.

The musical tribute to the painter includes works he himself performed and loved, works by composers associated with the Bauhaus, and pieces inspired by his paintings.

The program features Mozart’s Sonata in F major KV 377 and Brahms’ Sonata in A major op. 100, both part of Klee’s repertoire; Bach’s Fugue in B minor BWV 579 (piano version), which Klee had rendered graphically; Hindemith’s Sonata in C, by a Bauhaus collaborator and friend; and excerpts from Arne Nordheim’s Partita for Paul for solo violin.

Phaidon Miliadis – violin
Thodoris Iosifidis – piano

March 17, 2026
Tuesday, 8:30 p.m.

Free admission
(Advance seat reservation required)

*The concert series SONIC CHROMAS is presented with the support of Theodora Pikrou.