The Book of the Hanging Gardens, or: The Public Solitude of Contemporary Music, as Exemplified by Arnold Schoenberg and Stefan George
BETRIEBSWERK Heidelberg
Komposition:
- Conrad Ansorge: Waller im Schnee - Ein Cyclus in vier Gesängen -, aus: Fünf Gesänge nach Dichtungen von Stefan George op.14
- Theodor W. Adorno: Nr.1 und Nr.3 aus: Vier Lieder nach Gedichten von Stefan George op.7, für Singstimme und Klavier, 1944
- Anton Webern: Fünf Lieder nach Gedichten von Stefan George op. 4, Wien 1908/09
- Arnold Schönberg: Fünfzehn Gedichte aus „Das Buch der hängenden Gärten“ von Stefan George op.15, für eine Singstimme und Klavier, 1908
Singing: Truike van der Poel
Piano: J. Marc Reichow
Lecture: Dr. Albrecht Dümling (Berlin)
Matinee as part of the City of Heidelberg’s events marking the 150th anniversary of Stefan George’s birth (1868–1933).
"Hardly any other work of New Music was announced by its composer as groundbreakingly new with such unerring certainty at its premiere as Schoenberg’s ‘Book of the Hanging Gardens’ on January 14, 1910." – writes Albrecht Dümling in 1978 in the introduction to his dissertation on Schoenberg’s famous George cycle, which he examines below and also in our event within the context of the historical and artistic situation of its time of origin (and perhaps also of our own time).
In addition to Schoenberg’s Op. 15, Truike van der Poel, formerly a long-time singer with SCHOLA HEIDELBERG, and J. Marc Reichow will also perform George settings by other Viennese composers: songs by Anton Webern and Theodor W. Adorno, students of Alban Berg, as well as by Conrad Ansorge, the Liszt student, pianist, and composer whose early settings of George’s poetry sparked Schoenberg’s far-reaching interest in the contemporary poet.
In cooperation with the UNESCO City of Literature Heidelberg and the Cultural Office of the City of Heidelberg.
