Join Dr. Deen Larsen, founder and director of the Franz-Schubert–Institut, for this insightful lecture entitled "Eros and Pathos in Songs of Schubert". In many Schubert songs, we are drawn into a labyrinth of passionate and perilous feelings. Desire and fear burn together as one flame, and the tormenting beauty known as Sehnsucht becomes the soul’s crucible. In particular, among the songs with lyrics by Goethe, Mayrhofer, Müller or Heine, the twin emotions of love and suffering are often inseparable. Their mutual necessity is experienced in various ways and with differing outcomes, but always we hear how the romantic voice lives from the meaningful union of eros and pathos. *This is a required event for Voice Area students.* All music students, as well as Music Department staff and faculty, are encouraged to attend. The general public is also welcome to attend this lecture. For more information, please contact Catherine Abele : [email protected] Dr Deen Larsen - Biography Deen Larsen, founder and director of the Franz-Schubert–Institut, was born in Richfield, Utah, U.S.A. in 1943 and has lived in Austria since 1973. Larsen studied literature and philosophy at Reed College in Portland, Oregon (B.A.), at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut (M.phil.), and at the University of Vienna (Mag.phil., Dr.phil.). His main scholarly interests are German poetry from the age of Goethe, the philosophy of symbolic forms, the writings of James Joyce, and American social history. Larsen has taught poetry of the Lied at the Yale School of Music and the Vienna Academy of Music, opera history at Stanford in Austria, and is currently Adjunct Professor of Music at the University of Alberta. He has been awarded the Kaiser-Friedrich-Medaille in Bronze and the Kulturpreis für Musik of the City of Baden, as well as the Gold Medal of Honour of the Province of Lower Austria in recognition of the international significance of the Franz-Schubert-Institut.
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