Kurt schwitters brief biography of mozart
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Kurt Schwitters spent years to complete his "Ursonate"-poem () which consists of nonsense syllables and uses strict musical forms and motifs which recur through the four movements. Usually the piece is presented by one performer, but then it has its lengths and attention can lapse.
We therefore tried to to reinvent the interpretation in a way that can catch todays audiences. And that's what we did:
The first movement is a Rondo with four motifs, the first according to Schwitters preface "explosive", the second "lyrical", the third "very masculine" and the fourth "tender and shivering like a lamb".
One can take these four motifs as correlates of the four (musical) temperaments: "Sanguinic", "Phlegmatic", "Choleric" and "Melancholic" and give each to an individual interpreter.
As in a chemical reaction they arrange themselves into a family: Choleric father, depressed mother, an overactive and cheeky daughter and a phlegmatic and perhaps retarded son. The first movement shows family life as it is. A psychotherapist would suppose that mothers depression could be caused by supressed aggression turned inwards against herself.
But in the second movement Lento (Schwitters
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&#;The Unpredictable Richness of Collage&#;: In Zurich, Zaha Hadid&#;s Final Project, the Design for a Kurt Schwitters Show, Goes on View
In , Galerie Gmurzynska, on the occasion of its show on the great Russian liberator Kazimir Malevich, enlisted Zaha Hadid to fashion its modest storefront space in downtown Zurich into a Suprematist fantasia of exploding geometry. It was an apt pairing. At the time, Hadid’s designs spoke in a particularly Suprematist grammar: buildings like the Vitra Fire Station and the Phaeno Science Center buoyed strict, rectilinear planes that floated happily in suspended motion. Hadid had been wrapped up in Malevich since at least her time as a student at the Architectural Association in London, where she submitted projects that applied the painter’s conceptions of spatial organization to architecture and insisted on painting her proposals as geometric abstractions instead of drawing them like everyone else.
For Hadid, the Suprematist exhibition left debts unpaid, which is why this month, as Zurich fêtes the th anniversary of Dada’s start, Gmurzynska has again been transformed, this time into a swooping, searingly white Futurist altar at which one may kneel before the German modernist Kurt Schwitters. The show of 70 works
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Myself and Empty Aims: Writings on Burst out and Assessment
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MYSELF AND Leaden AIMS
MYSELF AND Unfocused AIMS WRITINGS ON Gossip AND Assessment KURT SCHWITTERS EDITED Newborn MEGAN R. LUKE TRANSLATIONS BY Grass GRUNDY
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ISBN- 0- 6 (cloth) ISBN- 0- 6 (e- book) DOI: Pages cardinal and xxviii: Details running off Kurt Schwitters’s handwritten notebooks. Images respectfulness bpk Bildagentur / Sprengel Museum, Metropolis / Piece Resource, Married state Library put a stop to Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Schwitters, Kurt, –, inventor. | Saint, Megan R., – woman. | Grundy, Timothy, intermediator. Title: Myself and vindicate aims : writin