Winterreise - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Winterreise
Florian Boesch - artist in residence
Franz Schubert - "Winter Journey"
Song cycle based on poems by Wilhelm Müller (1827)
Friday, January 29, 2021, 5:30 p.m. (without a break)
One year before his death, Schubert completed the song cycle Winterreise based on texts by Wilhelm Müller. The theme of wandering pervades the whole of Romanticism and the fact that wandering should be a pleasure for the miller goes directly back to the literary poet Wilhelm Müller, who is still in the shadow of Heinrich Heine today. The beautiful Müllerin, Schubert's first song cycle, also based on Wilhelm Müller, reveals a chronological plot. The winter journey, created five years later, is a series of associations that a traveler encounters on his hike. When Schubert began setting Müller's poems to music in February 1827, he was already terminally ill with syphilis. His friend and patron Joseph von Spaun experienced Schubert in a gloomy mood during this time, and he seemed physically attacked. When Schubert sang the Winterreise to his friends in a private circle "with a moving voice", Spaun was "completely amazed at the gloomy mood of these songs". Schubert himself, who had announced the Winterreise as “a cycle of gruesome songs”, “liked these songs more than all of them, and you will also like them.” In the wide repertoire of the baritone Florian Boesch, the song has a very special place is his personal passion. As an artist in residence, Boesch is therefore also presenting himself as a lieder singer at the Theater an der Wien this season, presenting his subtle, personal approach to Schubert's winter journey. Boesch seeks an individual visualization of a work that is based on experienced reality: As a volunteer guard hunter of the Prussian army, the young Wilhelm Müller was quickly appointed lieutenant and just as quickly dismissed dishonorably when he fell in love with a Jewish merchant's wife in Brussels. Deprived of all hope, Müller marched back alone and on foot from Brussels to Berlin in the middle of winter. Doomed Schubert conveyed Müller's basic mood to music: In the heart of the hiker there is permanent winter, only at night he remembers happier days, fluctuating between numbness and futile longing for a better life.
Subject to changes.
Franz Schubert - "Winter Journey"
Song cycle based on poems by Wilhelm Müller (1827)
Friday, January 29, 2021, 5:30 p.m. (without a break)
One year before his death, Schubert completed the song cycle Winterreise based on texts by Wilhelm Müller. The theme of wandering pervades the whole of Romanticism and the fact that wandering should be a pleasure for the miller goes directly back to the literary poet Wilhelm Müller, who is still in the shadow of Heinrich Heine today. The beautiful Müllerin, Schubert's first song cycle, also based on Wilhelm Müller, reveals a chronological plot. The winter journey, created five years later, is a series of associations that a traveler encounters on his hike. When Schubert began setting Müller's poems to music in February 1827, he was already terminally ill with syphilis. His friend and patron Joseph von Spaun experienced Schubert in a gloomy mood during this time, and he seemed physically attacked. When Schubert sang the Winterreise to his friends in a private circle "with a moving voice", Spaun was "completely amazed at the gloomy mood of these songs". Schubert himself, who had announced the Winterreise as “a cycle of gruesome songs”, “liked these songs more than all of them, and you will also like them.” In the wide repertoire of the baritone Florian Boesch, the song has a very special place is his personal passion. As an artist in residence, Boesch is therefore also presenting himself as a lieder singer at the Theater an der Wien this season, presenting his subtle, personal approach to Schubert's winter journey. Boesch seeks an individual visualization of a work that is based on experienced reality: As a volunteer guard hunter of the Prussian army, the young Wilhelm Müller was quickly appointed lieutenant and just as quickly dismissed dishonorably when he fell in love with a Jewish merchant's wife in Brussels. Deprived of all hope, Müller marched back alone and on foot from Brussels to Berlin in the middle of winter. Doomed Schubert conveyed Müller's basic mood to music: In the heart of the hiker there is permanent winter, only at night he remembers happier days, fluctuating between numbness and futile longing for a better life.
Subject to changes.
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