2. Themenkonzert: Musik und Wissenschaft

Lecture: Prof. Dr. Dieter Rexroth: "EXPERIENCE AND UNDERSTAND - Music and its linguistic communication"

Igor Stravinsky: Suite from "The Soldier's Tale"
Aram Khachaturian: Trio for clarinet, violin and piano
Paul Schoenfeld: Trio for clarinet, violin and piano

Violin: Bogdan Dumitraşcu
Clarinet: Christian Seibold
Piano: Kasia Wieczorek

"Language" is the theme of our three-part series of events entitled "Music and Science". We know that there are countless languages among people, depending on whether they belong to family groups, extended family groups or associations and societies. We speak of natural languages. They are used for understanding among people, for communication, and at the same time signify demarcation in their respective characteristics. Of course, these boundaries are overcome by acquiring and learning the other language.
We know that language is part of our everyday lives. It functions as an essential means of communication. But it is more than that! It is an expression of personality and it sounds different every time it speaks of suffering or joy, of love or hate. Language is in a state of flux, changing in line with real circumstances and conditions - and it does so constantly, continuously!
A concert event today, based on various works from the classical, romantic and modern periods, makes it immediately clear and understandable to the listener that messages, moods, experiences of hardship and joy are expressed in different musical languages, different work formats.
Similarly, after a few bars of a composition, we hear not only which epoch it comes from, but also which individual musical language elements it is based on. Whether it is the music of Igor Stravinsky, Antonín Dvoák or Bohuslav Martin or whether it was written by Hanns Eisler. Nevertheless, all these compositions and creations reveal not only something different, but above all something they all have in common, namely their ties to a superordinate order in material and structure, in tonality and formal essences. It is precisely these universal ties that form the basis for us to speak of music as a "universal language".