Joseph von Eichendorff's poems & Robert Schumann's musical settings

Joseph von Eichendorff and Robert Schumann are two of the most important artists of German Romanticism. As a highly sensitive artist, Schumann suffered all the emotional dangers of a romantic life plan; Eichendorff, as a Prussian civil servant living a secure life, nevertheless shaped it in his poems and novels. This resonates in Schumann's important settings of Eichendorff's poems. They are characterized by touching poetry, but also by abysmal tensions, and the lecture introduces the work of both artists by means of text analyses and sound examples, followed by a song recital entitled: Phönix '"Florens". Eichendorff's new songs', will take place.

Course leader: Müller, Udo. The speaker is a Germanist and Romance philologist; he was head of the grammar school department at the Regional Administrative Council in Freiburg