Düsseldorf. In the literary collection “Poets’ Garden for Music”, Clara and Robert Schumann brought together poetic testimonies about music from antiquity to the present day. The Heinrich Heine Institute and Schumann House invite you to an afternoon of recitation, piano music, pastries and coffee for the sixth time on Sunday, August 11th at 3 p.m.
The focus this time is on texts from “Des Knaben Wunderhorn”, a collection of folk songs published by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano at the beginning of the 19th century and containing over 700 love songs, hiking songs and children’s songs.
It was very well received by contemporaries and inspired numerous composers, including Robert Schumann and Gustav Mahler, to set it to music. The songs tell of the cuckoo and the nightingale, of night musicians and journeymen, performed by Paula Götz and accompanied by Nare Karoyan and Judith Hoffmann.
The event will take place at the Heinrich-Heine-Institut, Bilker Straße 12–14. It begins at 3 p.m. Admission costs twelve euros, reduced six euros. Registration is requested, [email protected] or telephone 0211/89-95571.
