{"id":5042,"date":"2014-09-04T19:22:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T17:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/herrenchiemsee-festspiele.de\/?p=5042"},"modified":"2022-09-11T20:24:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T18:24:13","slug":"motto-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/herrenchiemsee-festspiele.de\/en\/motto-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Motto 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>SON ET LUMI\u00c8RE<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>A royal dream.<\/strong> In the late summer of 1884, King Ludwig II fulfilled a dream that had long fascinated him. He decided to use the park of the \u201cnew Versailles\u201d castle on Herrenchiemsee Island as a setting to revive the evening court festivals that had previously been staged by Louis XI \u2013 albeit now with state-of-the art technology. He had the huge construction site around the castle concealed behind the backdrop of a park. A freight train from Holland brought bushes and flowers for the flower beds. Bavaria\u2019s leading electrical engineer Alois Zettler designed what was presumably the first open air show lighting system in world history, installing a myriad of synchronised coloured lights. Karl Lautenschl\u00e4ger, the head technician of the Munich Court Theatre, wrote sophisticated stage directions for light and sound for the installation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Son et lumi\u00e8re.<\/strong> The king arrived on the island on a mild September evening and took in the beautiful sight of the unlit castle at dusk. He then allowed himself to be enchanted by a mesmerising gesamtkunstwerk of music and illumination until late into the night. In devising this unique production the king had unknowingly anticipated a type of event which would become the core element of \u2018event culture\u2019 a century later: \u2018Son et lumi\u00e8re\u2019 \u2013 the artistic combination of light and sound which no courtyard serenade or rock concert can do without today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The light of enlightenment.<\/strong> On the occasion of the130th anniversary of this premiere the Herrenchiemsee Festival would like to commemorate the origin of these light and sound spectacles in King Ludwigs\u2019s fantastic dreams. In addition, the motto \u2018Son et lumi\u00e8re\u2019 holds a charming double meaning, for it was the declared aim of the leading figures of the French Enlightenment, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot to Voltaire, to bring \u2018la lumi\u00e8re\u2019, that is to say light to a society that was deliberately kept in the dark of ignorance by its leaders. Consequently, Rousseau\u2019s cry of \u2018back to nature\u2019 went far beyond the new landscape aesthetics of \u2018English gardens\u2019. It was aimed at political and social transformation in all areas of life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Music as inspiration.<\/strong> It would be presumptuous to try and technically re-produce Ludwig\u2019s \u2018Son et lumi\u00e8re\u2019 of 1884. The lack of documentation alone makes it simply impossible. This is why the Herrenchiemsee Festival will use musical means to reflect all the aspects that once fired the king\u2019s imagination: serenades and night musics, acoustic images of nature from Vivaldi\u2019s \u2018Four Seasons\u2019 to Beethoven\u2019s \u2018Pastoral\u2019 and landscape impressions from Berlioz\u2019s symphony \u2018Harold in Italy\u2019 to Robert Schumann\u2019s \u2018Rhenish\u2019 symphony. The profound theological imagery of Bach\u2019s cantatas is as much an expression of this year\u2019s motto as is Mozart\u2019s carefree \u2018Little Night Music\u2019; and in terms of music drama, the range spans from the celebration of light and freedom in Beethoven\u2019s \u2018Fidelio\u2019 to the enchantments of fairies and goblins in Mendelssohn\u2019s \u2018Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SON ET LUMI\u00c8RE A royal dream. In the late summer of 1884, King Ludwig II fulfilled a dream that had long fascinated him. 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