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In the organizer's words:

The project combines works of literature and music from different centuries on an aesthetic-philosophical, ecocritical and artistic level to create a philosophical-transcultural discourse on cases of water.

The combined works by the Taiwanese-American composer Shih-Hui Chen (*1962) and the Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828) refer equally to literary models:

Chen to poems by Li -Bai (aka "Li Taibo") 701-762, Su Shi 1037-1101 and Zhang Jiuling, 673?-740 about a waterfall on the legendary Chinese cultural mountain Lushan, Schubert's "Gesang der Geister über den Wassern" to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's six-stanza poem of the same name from 1779, inspired by the Staubbach Falls in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland.

The event will look at different re-mediations of the Goethe poem in Schubert's work by including several early settings, which will be performed in various scorings (from the fragment of an art song for baritone and piano to quartets for male voices with and without accompaniment to the unusual final version[1] for four low string instruments and eight male voices D 714 from 1821, a solitaire in the concert repertoire in this scoring).

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