Music in Context: Literature I
BETRIEBSWERK Heidelberg
Komposition:
- Dieter Schnebel: Kaschnitz – Gedichte, für Stimme und Klavier - In memoriam Marie Luise Kaschnitz, 1994
- Dieter Schnebel: Glossolalie 61
- SCHOLA HEIDELBERG | ensemble aisthesis
Leitung: Walter Nußbaum
Veranstalter: KlangForum Heidelberg e.V.
7:00 PM Introduction
8:00 PM Concert
The personal relationship between German composer Dieter Schnebel (1930–2018) and writer Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901–1974) provides the basis for a literary-musical double portrait of two significant figures.
The program includes, among other works, Schnebel’s twenty-minute song cycle "Kaschnitz-Gedichte," which he composed in 1994 in memory of his mother-in-law, Kaschnitz. In addition, the world premiere of a commissioned composition by the young Korean composer Eun-Ji Anna Lee – a student of Wolfgang Rihm in Karlsruhe, among others – will feature a highly topical setting of Kaschnitz’s poetry. Dieter Schnebel’s legendary seminal work in the field of speech-music, "Glossolalie" – originally conceived as a project in 1959 – will be presented by singers/speakers and instrumentalists of the ensemble aisthesis in the 1961 version.
Before the concert, Giessen-based Germanist Joachim Jacob will provide an introduction to the literary and biographical context of the event. Lena Sutor-Wernich will read selected prose texts by Marie Luise Kaschnitz, a native of Karlsruhe.
Works by Dieter Schnebel and Eun-Ji Anna Lee (world premiere) Texts by Marie Luise Kaschnitz
