Afternoon of lectures “Heaven in the Ear – Music and Religion”

Programme

Friederike Wißmann
“Children! Create something new! Something new, and yet again something new!” – Wagner’s religion of art as a creation myth

Wolfgang Rathert
“Now it is time for you to appear” – Paul Hindemith’s sacred music between mysticism and apocalypse

Dorothee Bauer
Birdsong, Hindu rhythms, Gregorian melodies: the tone colours of eternity in the music of Olivier Messiaen