Café Barock: Pietari Brahe and His Lute

Café Barock at Universum: Pietari Brahe and his lute

Governor-General Pietari Brahe (1602 - 1680) moved the centre of Helsinki to its current location and played a significant role in founding the first university in Finland, the Turku Academy. Less well known is that he played the lute. Brahe even wrote down with his own hands a collection of lute compositions of his contemporaries. 

Luteist Mikko Ikäheimo has studied the collection and recorded a disc from it. In the concert at Café Barock, Ikäheimo plays music from Brahe's collection and tells more about this music and Brahe's life.

Mikko Ikäheimo, lute

Universum

27.11.2022 at 15.00

Voluntary fee, duration 1,5 h

The cafe is open before the concert and during the interval