André Tubeuf recounts the essence of the German Lied and the circumstances that led him to discover it in 1950, at the age of twenty. He then evokes the beginnings of the history of the Lied by evoking in turn the figures of Mozart and Beethoven.
From the preamble "Bonne Nuit" to the finale "Joueur de Vieil", André Tubeuf evokes each of the 24 stations of this winter journey, a unique work in the history of music in general and the Lied in particular.
André Tubeuf evokes the figure of Robert Schumann, his whimsical character and his artistic quirks, his more or less poisonous attachment to the Rhine and to flowers, as well as the prodigious year 1840, the year of the Lied explosion.
André Tubeuf evokes the comet that was Hugo Wolf. From his Austrian childhood to his Viennese madness, André Tubeuf draws a Hugo Wolf who is both erratic and twisted, both brilliant and elusive, brilliant and unique.
André Tubeuf evokes Mahler's relationship to the Lied up to the elaboration of the hybrid masterpiece that is The Song of the Earth. Then Richard Strauss and in particular his last 4 songs come to close this history of the Lied.