Episode 6: Paul Klee as a music critic

Paul Klee was a painter, but played the violin all his life and regularly went to concerts and the opera. As a young man, he wrote music reviews for the Berner Fremdenblatt for three years and was not at all squeamish about the singers and soloists. Find out what he had to praise and criticise in this episode of “Paul Klee's Playlist”

Works played (excerpts):

Gaetano Donizetti, “La fille du régiment“

Ludwig van Beethoven, Ouverture from the opera “Fidelio“

Engelbert Humperdinck, Interlude from the opera “Hänsel und Gretel“

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Serenade No. 13 KV 525, A Little Night Music

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, String Quartet in D minor KV 421

Speaker: Marianne Keller,

Concept: Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Marianne Keller

Production: Mario Reinhard

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