Frühlingssinfonie

In the organizer's words:

"How it begins to green everywhere, how a butterfly may even rise, how little by little everything comes together that belongs to spring" - Robert Schumann

In addition to the semester program, the SOM is organizing an additional Whitsun project for the first time on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, in which a project orchestra with the participation of numerous musicians from various orchestras in the region will rehearse a concert program under the direction of Farhad Garayusifli during the university Whitsun vacations and perform it in St. Theresia:

• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy | Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt (1828)
• Robert Schumann | Symphony No. 1 in B flat major "Spring Symphony" (1841)

The headings "Calm Sea" and "Happy Voyage" could describe ideal conditions for the crossing from Sicily to Naples - but not at the time of Goethe and sailing. On his voyage across the Tyrrhenian Sea, he fears the danger of shipwreck off Capri during a lull - the calm of the sea - before the saving wind comes up and the journey can continue safely. Goethe's lyrical and artistic juxtaposition inspired Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy to compose an overture that translates the moods into a subdued, calm but suggestive Adagio and a lively Molto allegro e vivace.

Robert Schumann was able to derive an entire symphony from a poetic idea with his first work of large form: "O wende, wende deinen Lauf / Im Thale blüht der Frühling auf!" by Adolf Böttger could have been the inspiration for the trumpet entry in the first movement, which shapes the entire symphony. Without being program music, the symphony, composed in the "spring urge", musically develops the cheerful idea of spring and the approaching summer.

Conductor | Farhad Garayusifli

Admission is free. Donations to finance the concert and the project are requested at the door.