Andreas Skouras: Mit Hölderlin am Klavier

In the organizer's words:

In the evening of his life, Robert Schumann returned to the piano with the enigmatic cycle "Gesänge der Frühe" ("Songs of the Early Days"), whose spiritual inspiration began in the poetry and at the same time the person of Friedrich Hölderlin. Composer and poet shared the fate of what was described at the time as "mental derangement". The person of Hölderlin seems to exert a similar fascination on composers as his poetic language. Peter Ruzicka dedicated an entire opera to the poet, while Josef Matthias Hauer, Paul Hindemith and Johannes Kalitzke took Hölderlin's poems as the inspiration for their pieces. Words merged into music.

Program:

Robert Schumann: Gesänge der Frühe op. 133
Peter Ruzicka: Parergon. Six sketches on Hölderlin for piano
Paul Hindemith: I. Sonata "Der Main"
Josef Matthias Hauer: Piano pieces with headings after words by Friedrich Hölderlin
Johannes Kalitzke: Macchina d'autunno. Fantasy piece for piano sounds (piano and tape)

Andreas Skouras (piano)

Price information:

Discounts for pupils, students, pensioners aged 67 and over, people with disabilities.