Friday, March 11, 2011 – 6:30 PM Yacht Club of Monaco 16 Quai Antoine Ier – Monaco
Conference on Gustav Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn)
This conference-presentation serves as a prelude to the magnificent concert by the SWR, Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg on Friday, April 1, 2011 – 8:30 PM – Auditorium Rainier III
Speakers: Daniel Jublin, lecturer and director of the musical ensemble “Vars Musica,” and Jean Castellini, President of the Association of Friends of the Arts Spring Festival
At the end of 1887, Mahler discovered Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn), a famous anthology of “old German folk songs” that was very successful in romantic Germany. He devoted nearly all of his vocal production to it, 24 lieder, 3 of which would become movements of symphonies. The small scenes of the Wunderhorn are of great variety, ranging from nursery rhymes to legends, from fables to fantastic tales, from skits played between lovers to ballads.
