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Accompanying programme
Concert introduction ‘before the museum’ with Ulrike Kienzle
The forest is the place of longing of German Romanticism, and in Romantic music it is symbolized by the sound of horns. Ideally, they sound in fours, as a horn quartet: round and warm as at the beginning of Weber's Freischütz Overture, merrily blaring as in the virtuoso soloist quartet of Schumann's Konzertstück, or as the tonal backbone of the whole orchestra as in the symphonies of Joachim Raff.
Raff's “Third”, the “Forest Symphony”, was one of the most frequently performed orchestral works of the late 19th century - worldwide, but especially in Frankfurt, where Raff worked as a composition teacher and conservatory director. This once extremely popular symphony contains all kinds of sound wonders, from velvety clarinet reverie at dusk to the nocturnal fairy magic of the flutes to the wildly unleashed witches' ride at midnight, which inspired Peter Tchaikovsky's march in his “Pathétique”.
With Schumann and Raff, the concert program unites two works that were already planned earlier and now come together in a conceivably coherent combination.
(Frankfurter Museums-Gesellschaft e.V.)