{"id":66,"date":"2018-02-22T03:40:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T03:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brahmsonthepacific.com\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2018-12-12T17:07:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T17:07:55","slug":"literature-and-poetry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/brahmsonthepacific.com\/index.php\/literature-and-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Literature and Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Conference Theme 1: Literature and Poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The music of Brahms is intricately linked to the German intellectual tradition. Within his song output alone, Brahms set 46 poets, including respected names such as Goethe, Eichendorff, and Heine, and many lesser known poets. Brahms also set many literary and philosophically-based texts by writers such as Goethe, Schiller, and H\u00f6lderlin in his choral works. His treatment of the Luther Bible as a piece of German literature is found in some of his most renowned works such as <em>Ein deutsches Requiem <\/em>and the <em>Vier ernste Ges\u00e4nge<\/em>. Whereas the majority of the poets Brahms set were German, the imaginative realm of that poetry reaches far beyond German borders, extending, for example, to China in his setting of Goethe\u2019s <em>Chinesisch-deutsche Jahres- und Tageszeiten<\/em>, to Persia in his settings of Daumer\u2019s <em>Hafis <\/em>poetry, and it conjures up ancient Greece in his <em>Sapphische Ode<\/em> and other works. Equally broad is the chronological reach of his literary interests, extending from classical antiquity through Medieval Europe, and on to the nineteenth century. This conference will explore the poetic and literary aspects of Brahms\u2019s compositional output drawing on evidence from the composer\u2019s library, sketches and manuscripts, and correspondence. In relation to theme 3 below, it will also consider the work of recent composers, for example Wolfgang Rihm, who have returned to the literature Brahms set, by way of paying homage to or even \u201crecomposing\u201d Brahms in works such as <em>Symphonie \u201cN\u00e4he Fern\u201d<\/em> (2012). The focus on Brahms and literature will also prompt discussion of the presence of Brahms in literary fiction by authors such as Thomas Mann, E. M. Forster, and Milan Kundera.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"221\" src=\"http:\/\/brahmsonthepacific.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-12-16.29.59-11-1024x221.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-491\" srcset=\"http:\/\/brahmsonthepacific.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-12-16.29.59-11-1024x221.png 1024w, http:\/\/brahmsonthepacific.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-12-16.29.59-11-300x65.png 300w, http:\/\/brahmsonthepacific.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-12-16.29.59-11-768x165.png 768w, http:\/\/brahmsonthepacific.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-12-16.29.59-11-1200x259.png 1200w, http:\/\/brahmsonthepacific.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-12-16.29.59-11.png 1383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conference Theme 1: Literature and Poetry The music of Brahms is intricately linked to the German intellectual tradition. Within his song output alone, Brahms set 46 poets, including respected names such as Goethe, Eichendorff, and Heine, and many lesser known poets. Brahms also set many literary and philosophically-based texts by writers such as Goethe, Schiller, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/brahmsonthepacific.com\/index.php\/literature-and-poetry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Literature and Poetry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brahmsonthepacific.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brahmsonthepacific.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brahmsonthepacific.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brahmsonthepacific.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brahmsonthepacific.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/brahmsonthepacific.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"http:\/\/brahmsonthepacific.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brahmsonthepacific.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}