Biennale “Signs & Wonders”Afternoon of lectures “Heaven in the Ear – Music and Religion”

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Musikinstrumenten-Musem Berlin | Picture: Andreas Praefcke, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Concert information

Biennale of the Berliner Philharmoniker


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Artists

Friederike Wißmann lecture
Wolfgang Rathert lecture
Dorothee Bauer lecture


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


Additional information

The lectures are held in German


Dates and tickets


Museum of Musical Instruments

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