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Erik Nielsen

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Bettina Ranch

Aalto-Musiktheater Essen

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Essener Philharmoniker

4. Sinfoniekonzert der Essener Philharmoniker-Schumann "RHEINISCHE"

Essen

Germany

Alfried Krupp Hall

4. Sinfoniekonzert der Essener Philharmoniker-Schumann "RHEINISCHE": Concert Various

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If Rhenish cheerfulness ever found an equivalent in the orchestral literature, then in Robert Schumann's Third Symphony. In 1850 the composer moved to Düsseldorf to take up the post of municipal music director. The warm welcome made him euphoric, and allegedly it was the sight of the Cologne Cathedral that inspired him to compose a new symphony brimming with optimism. The source of inspiration for Wagner's "Wesendonck-Lieder" also came from what is now NRW: in the 1850s, the Elberfeld merchant's wife Mathilde Wesendonck became the muse of the composer, who set five of her poems to music. As a token of his admiration, he had already given her a draft of prose for the "Meistersinger von Nürnberg", an opera

English

4. Sinfoniekonzert der Essener Philharmoniker-Schumann "RHEINISCHE" by Various, From (2022/2022), Conductor Erik Nielsen, Alfried Krupp Hall, Essen, Germany

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