The Alpine Muse

From: Opera News | Date: May 1, 2008| Author: ¶ rg Von; Uthmann, JÃ | Copyright information

JÖRG VON UTHMANN looks at the ways in which Switzerland has provided inspiration to composers

Switzerland is famous for many good things - high mountains, low taxes, watches, cheese - but music is not one of its trump cards. The names of Othmar Schoeck, Ardiur Honegger and Frank Martin - Switzerland's most eminent composers - ring a bell only with the cognoscenti. Their work contains few conspicuous footprints of their homeland; Honegger spent most of his life in France. Ultimately, w...

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