Events

Johny Fritz

art
exhibition

wed. 12 Oct. 2022 - sat. 25 Mar. 2023

Johny Fritz Flutes, books, posters, medieval instruments, letters, pictures – and right in the middle is Johny Fritz (*1944). There is a method to what seems to spring from an individual's indiscriminate eagerness to collect. Johny Fritz's personal collection sheds light on his multi-faceted life and work: As a collector, he maintains an extensive collection of instruments, the focus of which is on all types of flutes, but also includes rare reconstructed medieval and Renaissance instruments. Fritz' interest in the French composer Erik Satie (1866-1925) accounts for the majority of his collecting activities and is expressed in a unique and very personal examination of Satie and his social environment. The result is a collection whose core is Satie's personal letters to his friends Valentine Gross, Georges Auric, Jean Wiéner and others, which are now being presented to the public for the first time. The approximately 35 works written by Fritz are strongly oriented towards modern music from France. Both as a composer and as a musician and collector, Fritz is involved with the LGNM (Lëtzebuerger Gesellschaft fir Nei Musek) and moves between mysticism and experimental music, between old and new, and thus combines apparent opposites that can be traced back to his main pedagogical activity as a Clarinet and recorder teachers penetrate.

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