In this year, the anniversaries of the Romantic composer Chopin and Schumann. The GEDOK, of German and Austrian artists guild is planning for this year, a multidisciplinary project that includes musical Focus. Title: 1810 - 2010 ... and the romance alive! The feeling of romance and its expression in the arts, the exhibition includes, engaged in by the artist Susanne Schumacher from Burgdorf / Hannover.
During the exhibition will attend concerts and lectures by the artists of the groups music and literature of the GEDOK Hanover. The GEDOK is the largest European network for artists of all styles. belong to the visual arts, applied arts, media arts, music, literature and performing arts. Also planned is a collaboration with schools. The artists themselves will hold the guides through the exhibition, and the young people Explain which concept of romance they have and how they express it in their work. The concerts are designed as lecture concerts.
Frédéric Chopin - musical genius
Although Chopin was a pianist in his life, only about 30 public concerts, he is to this day as the piano composer par excellence. But most of all: almost from the first to Chopin Opus appeared to be ready and independent composer. He changed his style of composition in the course of his life only slightly. Typical of his works is the characteristic melody. The merging of tragedy, melancholy and drama - often in confined spaces - makes its particular strength.
The music, composed by Chopin was always from within. Although he had a tendency to melancholy and depression, he was not just the dreamy romantic and sensitive, which many see in him. He was not only the composer tender Nocturnes, but also the Creator with passion and dramatic works such as trembling of the Ballade in G minor, op.23, the Scherzo in B minor, Op 20 in C sharp minor, Op 39, Polonaise in A flat major , Op 53, or the Revolutionary Etude Opus 10 No. 12 The fate, history and folklore of his native country influenced his compositions. Motifs and themes, especially the typical rhythm of the dances of Poland, Mazurka and Krakowiak, are found in many of his compositions again.
Chopin was 26 years old when he in October 1836 for the first time in Europe at that time known writer George Sand met. Her estate was also full of interesting guests each summer. They included the singer Pauline Viardot, the painter Eugène Delacroix, the writer Honore de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Flaubert and Ivan Turgenev and Chopin's colleague Franz Liszt. Among Chopin's friends beside Delacroix, Liszt and George Sand, among others, the poet Alfred de Musset, Honoré de Balzac, Heinrich Heine and Adam Mickiewicz, the musicians and Auguste Ferdinand Hiller Franchomme. Sand he had met at the house of Franz Liszt. In 1835 he was in Leipzig, mediated by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, acquaintance with Clara Wieck and Robert Schumann and 1836 with Adolph von Henselt in Carlsbad.
By Franz Liszt, a friend, colleague and first biographer of Chopin, the following lines are remarkable: "He never forced his will on another, he never sought to dominate the mind of another or to choke. He never raped a foreign heart, he never took in conquering the fate of another. He claimed nothing, and disdained to ask something, you could say, 'I much longed for, hoped little, desired nothing' "
Frédéric Chopin (born February 22 or March 1, 1810 {Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, Poland ; † 17 Oct 1849 in Paris)
Robert Schumann - 200 Birthday of the greatest composers of the German Romantic
Robert Schumann on 8 June 1810 born son of a bookseller and publisher in Zwickau. Reluctantly, he studied law. At the same time he took piano lessons from his late father Friedrich Wieck. A paralysis of the right hand thwarted the dream of a career of piano virtuosos. He focused on composing: 1840, the year he married the young pianist Clara Wieck - against the wishes of her father - he composed nearly 150 songs with piano, including song cycles and circles. 1844 smashed his hopes of Mendelssohn's successor at the Leipzig Gewandhaus become. In 1850 he was Director of Music in Dusseldorf. Robert Schumann is the embodiment of the romantic artist par excellence: Highly sensitive, ambitious, brimming with self-doubt, affected by mental illness. And in the love story with the pianist Clara Wieck, he is often seen as the more sensitive part of the art associated pair. Composer Johannes Brahms was a great admirer of Robert Schumann, and possibly learn to appreciate properly until today.
In today's stars have the romantic composers discovered for themselves, such as Sting: He read the letters to Clara Wieck Schumann in "Twin Spirits" on the love story between the composer and his late wife. On 29 Died July 1856 Robert Schumann, Clara survived him by 40 years. On the 200th Anniversary of his birth there will be many celebrations in his honor.
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