Music & Literature – “Eine Pilgerfahrt zu Beethoven” – Beethoven 250
Klaus Maria Brandauer & Sebastian Knauer
Chamber Music
Thursday, 4 August 2022
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 at Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy, this time with scores centered on Beethoven, highlighted by the performance of the “Moonlight Sonata” by pianist Sebastian Knauer: “Eine 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
| Richard Wagner (1813-1883) | |
| “Eine Pilgerfahrt zu Beethoven” – reading (in German) | |
| Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) | |
| Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 “Moonlight Sonata” | |
| 90' | |
| CHF 125/105/65 |