Colorado MahlerFest XV
Ann Schmiesing
Ann Schmiesing, Assistant Professor of German and Scandinavian
Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, received her doctorate in
German literature from Cambridge University in 1996. Her research interests
include Norwegian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and
German Enlightenment drama and moral philosophy. Having recently completed a
book manuscript on the German dramatist and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing,
she is currently writing a history of the Norwegian theater in the nineteenth
century. Prof. Schmiesing delivered an intriguing lecture on the background of the fold poems, Des Knaben Wunderhorn, at MahlerFest XIV.
Prof. Schmiesing will illuminate the poetry and other works of the German
author Friedrich Rückert, whose poems touched Mahler so deeply that he set
Kindertotenlieder and five other individual poems to music. Prof.
Schmiesing's talk on the literary milieu of Des Knaben Wunderhorn
received enthusiastic response at MahlerFest XIV.
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