Jubilees 2010
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08 Jun 2010 |
Robert Schumann - 200th anniversary of his birthOn 8 June 2010 the musical world will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Schumann. There have always been very close links between Schumann and the publishing house. Breitkopf & Härtel issued “Carnaval” in 1837 and released such important first editions as the “Kinderszenen” and the “Lieder-Album für die Jugend”. Schumann particularly esteemed Breitkopf’s outstanding professionalism and flawless musical engraving. His most important chamber music, orchestral and vocal works, including the Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4, as well as the oratorio “Das Paradies und die Peri” were published by Breitkopf & Härtel. After Schumann’s death, the brothers Raymund and Hermann Härtel played an essential role in continuing the publication of the composer’s works, which led to the “Werkausgabe” of (1879–93) edited by Clara Schumann. To this day, Breitkopf & Härtel fulfills the most stringent demands in editorial scholarship. It has been offering exemplary Urtext editions as well as first-class performance material for over twenty years now. All works by Schumann |
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27 Nov 2010 |
Helmut Lachenmann - 75th anniversary of his birthMuch loved and controversial, the music of Helmut Lachenmann, has a great influence on the composers of at least two generations. The highly radical and utopian conception of the times of a dissected sound, stripped of a semantic weight to achieve a state that can be defined “mineral”, has emblematically marked the extreme consequences of the structuralist musical avant-garde. But at the same time, and perhaps this is the most interesting and also surprising aspect, he has opened a new world of sound, provocatively forcing the limits of perception. Born of a negative conception of the semantic horizon, he has finally revealed a new idea of language and, so to speak, a new form of “virginity” of sound”. (Biennale di Venezia, 2008) All works by Lachenmann |
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