8 p.m. ART TALK with conductor Daniel Grossmann and Margot Th. Brandlhuber, collection manager of the Villa Stuck Museum followed by a reception and discussions with the artists of the evening
Im Umbruch is a series of talks and concerts in cooperation with the Museum Villa Stuck about the similar upheavals in music and art at the beginning of the 20th century. Through conversation, art viewing and concerts, parallels and interferences between music and the visual arts become visible and audible. The second edition of Im Umbruch focuses on the artistic paradigm shift that led to increasingly abstract forms of representation: bouquets of flowers become ornamental tendrils, melodies become systematic sequences of notes.
The beginnings of this abstraction were manifested very early in Munich with the main protagonists Hermann Obrist and August Endell, and preceded the developments in music. This epochal change can be seen in Arnold Schoenberg's work like in hardly any other complete work. Schoenberg's early pieces follow a late romantic style, from 1908 he composed atonal music and in 1921 he developed the method of composing with twelve tones that only relate to one another.
