Speak. Words.
A new podcast by performer and director Daniel Isengart that celebrates the spoken word, presenting excerpts from literature, poems and spoken versions of song lyrics.
Speak. Words.
Excerpt from Doktor Faustus, by Thomas Mann (Read in German)
•
Daniel Isengart
Thomas Mann constructed Doktor Faustus as a chronicle of the life and tragedy of the composer Adrian Leverkühn, told by his childhood friend, Serenus Zeitblom. This excerpt is taken from the eighth chapter, describing a music lecture by one Wendell Kretzschmar, an American-born composer and musician who, for a brief period, works as the local church's organist in their provincial hometown, Kaisersaschern. The theme of vividly described lecture is Beethoven's famous Piano Sonata Opus 111.