The history of music is rich in compositions inspired by literary models.
But literary texts can also be found that were written under a musical influence. If in both cases it is a matter of transferring a content (a thought, an idea, a feeling, a development, etc.) into the other medium, our interest is aroused in how this content is thereby illuminated in a new and different way, is ultimately transformed.
And there are even examples in which this process runs back and forth several times.
The starting point for the first evening of our new music series is Beethoven's Creutzer Sonata for violin and piano, which then plays a central role in Leo Tolstoy's narrative of the same name.
This in turn inspired Leos Janacek to write his 1st string quartet, entitled Creutz Sonata. Finally, in Margriet de Moor's short story Kreutzersonate, this Janacek quartet becomes a crystallization point for the love story told there.
Text source and further information about the event: http://www.romanfabrik.de/programm/detailansicht/calendar/2017/11/18/event/tx_cal_phpicalendar/mutare-ensemble-3/
