"Schubertiaden" and the
Landscape of the Lied

Baden bei Wien, formerly a favorite summer retreat of Mozart, Beethoven, Grillparzer, Eichendorff, and Hugo Wolf, is beautifully situated among the vineyards and wooded hills south of Vienna.
As the romantic landscape surrounding the spa has not yet lost its intimate relationship to the songs it once helped to inspire, excursions are planned to sites in and near the Vienna Woods, including Beethoven's pastoral haunts, many a rustic inn, and the ancient monastery of Heiligenkreuz, where two of the four formal public recitals will be given.
Course participants will also perform informally in Baden, singing Mozart’s famous “Ave Verum Corpus” at the church where he composed it and giving a Schubertiade in the historical rooms where Beethoven was living when he composed his Ninth Symphony.
The final concert on August 9 will take place in the Zentrum für interkulturelle Begegnung auditorium in the Baden Synagogue.