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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.

Klangspuren Schwaz: Die Schöne Müllerin/These Fevered Days

House of Music, Innsbruck

Place of longing – role model – victim: the relationship between humans and nature is complex. Per Nørgård uses texts by Rainer Maria Rilke to search for a connection to nature in sound. Christian Mason composes according to the principles of swarm intelligence, observes the social strategies of fish and birds for living and surviving and asks: is adaptation the best survival strategy for us humans too? The willows in Johannes Maria Staud's choral work can tell you a thing or two about this, as they were witnesses to the death marches that passed by them. And the Korean composer Younghi Pagh-Paan's existential choral work tells of the earth that means home. It is about rural exodus, exploitation and the radical restructuring of Korean society to the point of "loss of the soul".

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Gastkonzert: Natur und Mensch

Alte Oper

Emilio Pomàrico conducts works by Staud and Posadas

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

ECLAT Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart

Theaterhaus Stuttgart

Tchaikovsky considered Ukraine a second home and refuge, and he began work on this symphony while staying just outside of Kiev. One of his most joyful compositions, this symphony creatively incorporates Ukrainian folk songs. The concert features a percussion concerto commissioned for Christoph Sietzen, who has been praised as an outstanding talent, “a refreshingly natural musician notable for his technical mastery and powerful stage presence.”

Tchaikovsky's Second Symphony

Severance Music Center

Legends swirl around the creation of Mozart’s Requiem, written on his deathbed and left unfinished: Who was the mysterious figure who commissioned the composer? What parts of the work were truly his own? And was Mozart composing his own funeral mass with this final artistic statement? Many of these questions were explored hauntingly (abeit suspiciously) in the movie Amadeus. We are nevertheless left with a work of overwhelming power — at once intensely dramatic and deeply personal — that touches the core of our humanity.

Mozart's Requiem

A self-alienating desire: There are many interpretations of Franz Schubert’s “Schöne Müllerin”, which set texts by Wilhelm Müller to music. To begin with, Johannes Maria Staud approaches the cycle via the most subtle calibrations of sound in his instrumentation for ensemble. By adding new compositions to texts by the poet Emily Dickinson, he lends the “Fair Maid of the Mill” a voice of her own, giving space to her subjective experience of these fateful entanglements.

Composer

Johannes Maria Staud

Events

Upcoming events

Dec 11, 2025

Fremdes Begehren · Klangforum Wien

21 - 22 May, 2026

Santtu-Matias Rouvali & Christoph Sietzen · Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Past events

Sep 14, 2025

Klangspuren Schwaz: Die Schöne Müllerin/These Fevered Days · Klangforum Wien

May 16, 2025

Gastkonzert: Natur und Mensch · SWR Symphonieorchester

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