Sight & Sound: Leon Botstein & The Orchestra Now (Schumann's "Rhenish" Symphony)
Thursday, March 20, 2025 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (EDT)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York,
NY,
United States
$35-$55
- Leon Botstein, conductor
As the German Romantic movement took hold in the early 19th Century, artists of all types began examining the relationship between nature and the human soul. Painter Caspar David Friedrich, widely considered the most important German artist of the era, portrayed nature as a setting for profound spiritual and emotional encounters. His compatriot, the renowned composer Robert Schumann, also took inspiration from the natural world. Upon moving to Düsseldorf, along the Rhine River, he wrote his buoyant Third Symphony, which he titled the Rhenish.
Featuring art from Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature.