Sophie Rennert © Pia Clodi
Tu 14 Sep 21
19:30 Middle Hall Brucknerhaus Linz
Sophie Rennert &
Helmut Deutsch
past event
past event

Song recital

„Bruckner as a teacher combined Upper Austrian earthiness with Viennese warmth.(...) For this reason even the most motivated rejection of blind obedience was taken for uncouth impropriety, and this often led to disagreements. These, however, always ended in a rapid reconciliation.“ In this manner Friedrich Klose remembered the ambivalent nature of his teacher Anton Bruckner. I wonder if Bruckner took it as „uncouth impropriety“ that many of his pupils concentrated their attention on the art song, a genre which he himself had almost entirely neglected? The young Austrian mezzo-soprano Sophie Rennert, already successful on the international stage, immerses herself - with the support of Helmut Deutsch - in the cosmos of the late Romantic art song, a field largely forgotten nowadays, and in the process brings to light many treasures worthy of attention. Her programme ranges from the songs of Franz Marschner, whom Bruckner rated as „the best student among those I have had at the conservatorium“, and Max von Oberleithner, who occasionally helped Bruckner as an assistant and copyist, via works by Mathilde Kralik von Meyrswaldens and Friedrich Klose – two of the most successful of Bruckner's pupils in his lifetime – to Hugo Wolf, without doubt the most important Lieder composer of his generation.

Programme

Franz Marschner (1855–1932)

Mathilde Kralik von Meyrswalden (1857–1944)

Hugo Wolf (1860–1903)

Friedrich Klose (1862–1942)

Max von Oberleithner (1868–1935)

Lineup

Sophie Rennert | Mezzo soprano

Helmut Deutsch | Piano