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KATRĪNA PAULA FELSBERGA, JULIUS DRAKE & BURGHART KLAUSSNER

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Tue, May 27, 2025, 19:30
Until the beginning of the 20th century, few com­posers engaged with the works of Friedrich Hölderlin— it almost seems as if music needed to shed tonality and formal restraints to come to terms with the expressive power of the poet’s language. In this Lied und Lyrik pro­gram, Katrīna Paula Felsberga and Julius Drake explore the wide-ranging musical afterlife of Hölderlin in the “free future century” he envisioned in his 1806 Hymn to Freedom. Acclaimed actor Burghart Klaußner (The White Ribbon, The Crown) reads the original poems.

Keywords: Vocal Music

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Musicians

Felsberga Katrīna PaulaSoprano
Drake JuliusPiano
Klaußner BurghartRecitation

Program

Friedrich HölderlinSelected Poems and Texts
Settings by Peter Cornelius, Hans Pfitzner, Paul Hindemith, Hanns Eisler, Viktor Ullmann, Benjamin Britten
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