Subjective! Lecture series of András Batta
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Subjective! Lecture series of András Batta
This programme is held in Hungarian.
Our whole life is surrounded by songs. We hope that every child still falls asleep to a lullaby, then learns songs in kindergarten that they do not completely forget at school either. In any case, at graduation the ancient Gaudeamus igitur can still be heard. We sing on holidays, at the beginning and end of life, at parties, on journeys. This is true even of our world entangled in technology, and it has always been so. We forget songs and learn new ones. Unfortunately, the songs of classical music belong to the former category. In earlier times there were song recitals, even in the largest concert halls. Today classical song recitals are rare, which is why András Batta thought that in the seventh season of Subjektív he would revive some works from this repertoire, and even look back at bourgeois concert life by leafing through the songbooks of a medieval and a Renaissance master. The first two lectures pay homage to individual song art, while the third deals with some genres that embrace the songs of the community.
“In the second chapter of the Subjektív cycle I tell stories. Not only were songs written that capture a single emotion or momentary mood, but they are also capable of expressing heart‑rending stories. Such are, for example, those songs whose text is a ballad (Goethe and Schubert’s famous Erlkönig, the Elf King, is of course indispensable!). There are also cyclical song-stories, with a plot that can be either described or merely sensed. The Fair Miller-Maid, Winter Journey, Woman’s Love and Life, and even the Russian dance of death, Musorgsky’s song cycle, open up before us like novellas this evening” – András Batta.
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I have deliberately left the words ‘music history’ out of the title. Although, of course, in my own case it is the basis of everything: my studies and more than 40 years of teaching. For me, however, music history is increasingly becoming a tool to see and, above all, to hear behind all great music and, inspired by the music, to imagine things that may or may not be true, but which enhance the experience of the encounter.
Subjective? Clearly it is: subjective fantasy in moments that only this deep and soaring art can create. I invoke words to accompany music, but the point lies in the gestures and in the experience of listening to music together. My aim is to draw the mysticism of music into an educational ritual. Those who want to learn from it are able to, of course, but the journey itself is more important, the thing that leads to the music and through it to its secrets. Let's slow down time together for a fleeting yet timeless hour.
Language: hungarian
