Oxford Lieder Festival 2016

Study Day. Presented in association with the Open University's Literature and Music Research Group

Schumann, his friends and followers: a literary world and its legacies

Schumann was inspired by literature throughout his life, and saw no real divide between the world of letters and the world of music. His writings, both musical and literary, inspired a generation of creative intellectuals in Germany and beyond, and engendered a wealth of literary responses in turn. This study day is an opportunity to explore the cultural worlds and influence of musical friends and followers such as Mendelssohn and Brahms; literary contemporaries such as Heine and Rückert; and those well beyond Schumann’s time and place who have continued the resonance of his ideas down to our own time.

Tickets for the day, including the recital, are £25/£20. Student attendance to the talks is free, the recital ticket £5. Attendance is free to holders of Festival passes. Full details are available from the Festival website: https://www.oxfordlieder.co.uk/event/622 

The study day programme with abstracts is available online [PDF].

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Full details are available from the Festival website.