![]() ![]() ![]() Ah, those German Romantics—throwing themselves in the Rhine, or across the railroad tracks, or shooting themselves in the head as in Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther.Īt the rehearsal, Stephanie Tretick reminded me that the last time the Pittsburgh Symphony stayed in Bonn, the Polizei fined Charles Lirette $20 when he practiced his trumpet near some railroad tracks. You can see a laurel branch that Brahms collected and gave to Clara, and the last letter that Schumann wrote to his wife. It is eerie to look out the windows he would have gazed from. Now rebuilt, the house maintains a beautiful library, small concert hall, and the artifacts of Schumann’s life. The house was partially destroyed during WWII. Could she have wanted to spend more time with Brahms, or did she want to work on her piano playing career, or was she flipped out by Robert’s madness? Isn’t love wonderful? Robert Schumann is buried in the central cemetery in Bonn. There’s now a great deal of speculation about why Clara didn’t disobey his doctors’ orders. Trumpeter Neal Berntsen and daughter Molly at the Beethovenhalle, Bonn. Brahms and violinist Joseph Joachim did visit Schumann in the house, and Schumann wrote a few pieces of music there. The doctors told her not to worsen his condition by visiting. He was wearing his pajamas and was dragged, soaking wet, from the water by some fisherman. It’s the former sanitarium where Schumann was taken after his attempt at suicide by throwing himself in the Rhine during Lenten Carnival celebrations. David sang a phrase from Robert Schumann’s song cycle Dichterliebe about Schumann’s love affair with Cologne Cathedral and the Rhine, as we watched the river pass by from the bus.Īfter the rehearsal, Andrew Druckenbrod and I were driven to the Schumann House in Bonn by Silke Neubarth, the Press Referentin or chief press officer. Sogg were on the other side of the aisle, solving a crossword puzzle and planning to visit the Beethoven Geburtshaus in Bonn after the rehearsal. The August 24th edition also featured a man in Texas who very possibly was executed by mistake, and a profile of an intellectual Canadian politician who was of special interest to the Canadian-born Pete.Ĭo-Principal Bassoonist David Sogg and Mrs. ![]() Proust created the tunesmith Vinteuil, and Thomas Mann imagined the composer Adrian Leverkühn. Alex Ross has an article about writers who create fictional composers in their novels. Pete was catching up on recent issues of The New Yorker. On the bus from Cologne to Bonn, I sat with Principal Trombonist Peter Sullivan. The theme this year is Im Licht (In Light) and there’s a big banner above the stage with an image of the moon. Built in 1959, the concert hall has a concrete, solid, post-WWII look about it, but the audience is very fashionable and sophisticated. The PSO played at Bonn’s renowned Beethovenfest with Viktoria Mullova as soloist in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. The Pittsburgh Symphony played Beethoven from the city where the composer was born on December 16, 1770. Andy Warhol's Beethoven at Beethoven's BirthplaceĪndy Warhol's Beethoven at the Beethoven House ![]()
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