Musik & Literatur – Heiligenstadt 1802 – Beethoven 250
Klaus Maria Brandauer & Sebastian Knauer
Chamber Music
Saturday, 8 August 2020
7.30 pm, Zweisimmen Church
You may remember him reading letters from Mozart and Abbot Bullinger in 2006 with Daniel Hope? Star actor Klaus Maria Brandauer is back, this time with scores centered on Beethoven, highlighted by music chosen by pianist Sebastian Knauer. This is an opportunity to delve back into one of the key texts of the genius from Bonn, his famous «Heiligenstadt Testament», a letter written (but never sent) to his brothers Karl and Johann, in which he expresses his despair over his deafness and the consequent need to isolate himself from Viennese society. Echoing this, Klaus Maria Brandauer will read excerpts from «Pilgerfahrt zu Beethoven», a newspaper article written in the winter of 1840-41 by a very young Richard Wagner, in which he tells, with great humour, of an imaginary pilgrimage to Vienna that would lead him to the composer, and which results, against all odds, in a true - prophetic - manifesto in favour of a total overhaul of lyric dramaturgy.
Klaus Maria Brandauer, reading
Sebastian Knauer, Piano
| Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) | |
| Piano Sonata No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 10 No. 1 (excerpts) | |
| Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 (excerpts) | |
| Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 “Moonlight Sonata” | |
| Bagatelles, Op. 126 (extracts) | |
| Readings from Beethoven's “Heiligenstadt Testament” and Wagner's “A Pilgrimage to Beethoven” – in German | |
| 100' | |
| CHF 125/105/65 |