There are many interpretations of Franz Schubert's “Schöne Müllerin”, which set texts by Wilhelm Müller to music. For this concert evening, Johannes Maria Staud brings the lyrical themes of nature and love into the present. By adding new compositions to seven texts by the poet Emily Dickinson, he reveals connections between her thoughts and Schubert's work, and lends the “Fair Maid of the Mill” a voice of her own, giving space to her subjective experience of these fateful entanglements.
Dickinson, who published only ten of her 1,789 poems during her lifetime, explored themes such as nature, love and societal questions in her experimental poetry, always striving for possibilities of female self-determination.
Under the baton of Elena Schwarz, Klangforum Wien will perform the national premiere of Staud’s composition together with tenor Christoph Prégardien at Haus der Musik Innsbruck.
Event in cooperation with musik+ and Haus der Musik Innsbruck