Hermann Hesse and the music in his poetry. - A literary-musical journey through the world of thought of a Nobel Prize winner in literature -
"Wherever we find something that is like music, we must stay there; there is nothing else to strive for in life but the feeling of music, the feeling of resonance and rhythmic life, the harmonious right to exist." (Hermann Hesse). For hardly any other writer has music had such a significant and lasting effect on the linguistic style of his literary work and on human development as for the Nobel Prize winner for Literature (1956). Music was probably the only art he considered indispensable. And Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Magic Flute were just as important to him as the air he breathed and the bread he ate. In the lecture, some of his poems will be musically interpreted and performed to vocals and classical guitar accompaniment.
Presenter: Karl Brandenstein, M.A. History/Literature, guitarist and music teacher.
Admission free: Hat donation appreciated