Poschner's Passion

Mahler and literature. Our series of discussions with principal conductor Markus Poschner and writer Alain Claude Sulzer.

Every household should have at least two books: the Bible and a copy of the romantic folk song collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe already insisted on this, and Gustav Mahler naturally owned both. In addition, he set texts by Friedrich Nietzsche to music, as well as Friedrich Rückert's Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children). How can such a literary horizon be described? What did “the word” mean to Mahler the musician? We will be exploring these questions on the occasion of the subscription concert with Christian Gerhaher and the Wunderhorn songs.