Cornelia Sonnleithner Old
Clara Sophia Murnig piano

Programme

Gustav Mahler

Children's death songs

Now the sun wants to rise so brightly

Now I can see why such dark flames

When your little mum

I often think they've just gone out

In this weather

Modest Petrovich Musorgsky

Songs and dances of death"

Lullaby

Serenade

Trepak

The commander

- INTERMISSION -

Johannes Brahms

Four serious songs

For it goes to man

I turned

O death, how bitter you are

If I spoke with the tongues of men and with the tongues of angels

The Lied duo Cornelia Sonnleithner (alto) and Clara Sophia Murnig (piano) invite you to a
Concert evening of particular emotional intensity. Under the title "Death, the Muse -
Brahms and Mahler on the Wieden", the project is dedicated to the eternal theme of the
Transience - a field of tension between farewell and new beginnings, pain and comfort,
Past and future. It is about love, which despite all the blows of fate in
lives on in many different facets - dark, poetic and profound.
The programme combines works by great composers such as Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler and
Modest Mussorgsky, whose music deals with death in a touching and individual way,
memory and transience. The selected songs and
compositions open up a space for musical melancholy, quiet beauty and
reflected emotion.
A special focus is on the 4th district of Vienna - Wieden.
The artists combine music with local history and thus create a unique
cultural experience. Wieden was once the site of a "poor sinner's cemetery", a
cemetery for destitute deceased people in Argentinierstraße. In close connection to this
was a historic brotherhood of the dead, whose headquarters were located in the Augustinian church.
This deeply rooted mortuary culture in the heart of Vienna lends the project a special
historical and cultural dimension.
The concert project sees itself as an artistic bridge between the past and the present.
and the present, music and memory, intimacy and publicity. It invites the audience
to embark on an emotional journey - carried by sound, history and the
quiet beauty of the ephemeral.

Organised by Cornelia Sonnleithner and Clara Sophia Murnig.
Admission: free donation.