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Marco Mantovani
Nine Louvel

Marco Mantovani

Kreisler’s inner circle
Mon 23 Mar 18:30
Studio 1
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23 Mar
18:30
Past event

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Program

Robert Schumann, Kreisleriana, op. 16
works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven, György Kurtág, Heinz Holliger, Jörg Widmann

artist(s)

Marco Mantovani, piano
Maxime Snaterse, piano
Emanuele Mammarella, clarinet
Mihai Cocea, viola

Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler, a character created by E.T.A. Hoffmann, fully embodies the eccentric Romantic musician. The name "Kreisler", derived from the German word for "circle" (Kreis), foreshadows his tragic and inevitable fate: an all-consuming obsession with unattainable musical perfection that plunges him into a spiral of madness. No wonder Kreisler became a source of inspiration for Robert Schumann, himself a quintessentially Romantic composer who would eventually meet the same fate.

The concept of the "circle" also suggests a shared community, a club. This second meaning inspired Marco Mantovani to imagine a dialogue between composers, past and present, that are close friends of Kreisler in spirit, intertwining Schumann’s Kreisleriana with works by Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Kurtág, Holliger and Widmann.

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