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Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock on his 300th birthday: Under the title "Vom Klang der Dichtung. Klopstock and Music", the Hamburg State Library is presenting an exhibition on the sound of Klopstock's poetry and the author's musical reception (https://blog.sub.uni-hamburg.de/?p=38222).

In this context, a concert with an introduction will take place on Friday, July 12, 2024, at 19:00. In the 18th century, a bourgeois musical life emerged in Hamburg that was characterized by enlightenment and sensibility. Georg Philipp Telemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, but also many composers who are less well-known today, published their works in individual and collected editions as well as in Musenalmanachen. The repertoire was also used for communal music-making in town houses. Students of the HfMT dedicate themselves to contemporary compositions in Klopstock's environment as well as later settings of the 19th to 21st centuries. They will perform works for voice and harpsichord or for voice and piano by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Christian Gottlieb Neefe and Corona Schröter, among others, as well as by Franz Schubert, Fanny Hensel, Edward MacDowell, Mathilde von Kralik and Richard Strauss. The concert will be rounded off by the world premiere of a work by Jonas Otte.

Students of the HfMT will perform
Introduction by students of the musicology seminar "Empfindsamkeit als Medienwandel. Klopstock and his musicians" (HfMT Hamburg, Prof. Dr. Louis Delpech)

Music: Hongping Ruan (soprano), Natsumi Wolff (mezzo-soprano), Changwook Jang (tenor), Jing Tang (harpsichord), Thomas Nikolov (piano) and Jonas Otte (piano).
Introduction: Genco Gezgöç, Thomas Haas, Jonas Otte and Mio Sasaki

The introduction will take place in the lecture room, followed by a concert in the atrium of the State and University Library.

Admission is free.