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Concert reading with excerpts from letters and documents by Chopin and his contemporaries, alternating with works by the composer

Homage to Frédéric Chopin

Bündheimer Schloss

The Harbour Front Literature Festival is looking forward to an evening between music and literature, passion and rupture, genius and abyss. »Ein Glück ohne Ruh – Alma & Gustav Mahler« is a multi-faceted homage to one of the most famous and contradictory artistic marriages in music history – told from letters, diaries and memories, interspersed with songs by the two protagonists. The actors Corinna Harfouch and Peter Lohmeyer read from the letters of Alma and Gustav Mahler, from Alma’s autobiography »Mein Leben«, her »Memories of Gustav Mahler« and from texts by contemporaries such as Alban Berg, Johannes Brahms, Sigmund Freud, Arnold Schönberg, Jean Sibelius and others. In musical alternation, works by Gustav Mahler and Alma Mahler will be performed by Roman Trekel and Hideyo Harada – a haunting combination of language, sound and inner turmoil. An evening about a love that was exhausted by its own intensity – and about two personalities who left their artistic mark in very different ways.

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A happiness without rest – Alma & Gustav Mahler

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

His works continue to fascinate the world over, and Maurice Ravel's ballet music "Boléro" was a particularly brilliant achievement. This year he would have turned 150 – reason enough for us to take a closer look at the life of this composer who was meticulous about detail and who strove for perfection. Accompanied by Mayumi Kanagawa on violin and Hideyo Harada on piano, German actor Devid Striesow will shed light on the life of the French composer, to whom we are devoting a special focus this year with numerous concerts. Look forward to a musical and literary program specially compiled for this evening, which will illuminate the many facets of Maurice Ravel's fascinating personality.

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Hideyo Harada

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Jun 20, 2026

Homage to Frédéric Chopin · Harzburger Musiktage

Oct 13, 2025

A happiness without rest – Alma & Gustav Mahler ·

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Klavier in Ballade no. 1 in G minor, op. 23 by Chopin

Harzburger Musiktage

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