Tag: Maximilian Hornung

  • PROGRAM NOTES: MAXIMILIAN HORNUNG & BENJAMIN ENGELI

    PROGRAM NOTES: MAXIMILIAN HORNUNG & BENJAMIN ENGELI

    Robert Schumann Fünf Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102 Long before Martha Stewart made middle-class home furnishings a “thing,” the Biedermeier period (1815-1848) ushered in a bourgeois age of cozy home interiors that celebrated domestic family life and gave music a prominent place within it. Biedermeier Europe enjoyed the blessings of peace after the defeat of…