{"id":5040,"date":"2015-09-04T19:21:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T17:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/herrenchiemsee-festspiele.de\/?p=5040"},"modified":"2026-08-17T21:24:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:24:04","slug":"motto-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/herrenchiemsee-festspiele.de\/en\/motto-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Motto 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OF FOREIGN LANDS AND PEOPLE
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The Flight to a Foreign Land.<\/strong> <\/span>
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The word \u201cHeimweh\u201d is surprisingly recent. It first appeared in 1651 in medical reports about Swiss
\nsoldiers, who at that time served as mercenaries in numerous European armies. The opposite term, \u201cFernweh,\u201d is of even more recent origin. It did not enter the German lexicon as an established term until the mid-19th century, presumably closely linked to the first major wave of emigration to America and, in particular, the infamous \u201cgold rush\u201d of 1848; at the same time, major technological advances in shipping made the crossing affordable, comfortable, and thus doubly tempting. However, \u201cFernweh\u201d
\ndid not become a standard term in tourism until the advertising strategies of the late 20th century.
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Royal Utopias.<\/strong>
\nThe architectural dreams of Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, on the other hand, initially resembled journeys through time to a romantically idealized Middle Ages or to the Versailles of Louis XIV. But soon the monarch also conceived of castle projects designed to bring distant worlds closer to him through illusion. For example, he planned to build a Byzantine palace\u2014and eventually even a Chinese one\u2014right in the middle of Bavaria\u2019s Graswang Valley. And when his architectural fantasies began to falter in the face of financial reality, he seriously considered moving his primary residence to Tenerife or another of the Canary Islands. Thus, his bold utopias once again proved to be a foreshadowing of modern tourist dreams. <\/p>\n

About foreign countries and people.<\/strong>
\nWhen Robert Schumann composed the \u201cKinderszenen\u201d in 1838, he initially downplayed their quality and significance to his girlfriend and artistic partner, Clara Wieck: \u201cI wrote about 30 little cute pieces, from which I selected about twelve and called them \u2018Kinderszenen.\u2019\u201d This remark fails to acknowledge that these miniatures were by no means harmless practice pieces for piano students, but rather tiny works of art for adults designed to help them rediscover the \u201csoul\u201d of childhood within themselves. The opening piece, \u201cOf Foreign Lands and People,\u201d serves, as it were, as the motto for the series; and its most astonishing virtue is that it does not flaunt musical exoticism, but rather blends completely into the childlike world of thought of that era.<\/p>\n

A Journey Around the World in Sound.<\/strong>
\nThe 2015 Herrenchiemsee Festival draws on the Schumann theme to present music from around the globe\u2014without ever losing sight of its \u201cpatron,\u201d Ludwig II. Even the traditional opening night, featuring four Bach cantatas, evokes the journey of the Magi from Sheba to Bethlehem. A program as unusual as it is bold combines Venetian and Turkish music to commemorate the naval battle of Lepanto. Smetana\u2019s hymn to his Czech \u201chomeland\u201d is featured alongside Purcell\u2019s British \u201cKing Arthur\u201d and Puccini\u2019s opera about emigration, \u201cManon Lescaut.\u201d Felix Mendelssohn\u2019s \u201cScottish Symphony\u201d is a must, as is music by the Russian masters Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky. And as a revival of a highly acclaimed 2012 performance, Robert Schumann\u2019s secular and exotic oratorio \u201cDas Paradies und die Peri\u201d will be performed. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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