Lothar Kempter News
composer and conductor (1844-1918)
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What always draws be back to Hebel is the completely coincidental fact that my grandfather, whose use of language was in many ways reminiscent of that of the Hausfreund, would every year buy a Kempter Calender, in which he would note, in his indelible pencil, the name days of his relatives and friends, the first frost, the first snowfall, the onset of the Föhn, thunderstorms, hailstorms and suchlike, and also, on the pages left blank for notes, the occasional recipe for Wermuth or for gentian schnapps. This passage from A Place in the Country by W.G. Sebald, recently translated and published English, is a brilliant snapshot of the late great author's style. In it links the German poet Hebel with his infinitely more prosaic grandfather, while colouring each in turn: the former is rendered more approachable, the latter infinitely more mysterious. The collision of the human and the natural […]
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