![]() ![]() 35 (1903) DEBUSSY String Quartet in G minor, Op. The full correspondence has been translated for the first time by Damion Searls, and reimagined as a dramatic dialogue by Bill Barclay. Full Title: Letters to a Young Poet When Written: 1902-1908 When Published: 1929 Literary Period: Rilke wrote Letters in a transitional period, when both Romanticism and Victorianism were fading from popularity and the Modernist movement was beginning to take shape. These twinned masterpieces reflect each other in time and space, forecasting the future of romanticism as modernist thought took over Paris.Īmazingly, ‘the young poet’s’ letters have only just been found. ![]() World premiere with The Brodsky Quartet, June 24 at the Aldeburgh Festival, Snape Maltings UK.īoth born in 1875, Ravel and Rilke wrote their iconic works at the age of 28 in Paris in the same months and just a few streets away. Featuring for the very first time the lost letters of Franz Kappus, ‘the young poet,’ completing this famous correspondence in a new concert-theatre work. Maurice Ravel’s single, masterful string quartet combines with Rilke’s letters in a unique union of music and text. Ravel & Rilke Rainer Maria Rilke’s nine letters to aspiring poet Franz Kappus are a clarion call to artists everywhere. ![]()
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