Course Programme
Friday
Please plan to arrive between 16:30 and 18:30. You can meet other course members in the Terrace bar where tea and coffee are available.
19:00 Dinner
20:30 Session 1: Introduction, origins, great men (Sturm und Drang, Herder, Goethe, Schiller, Beethoven)
22:00 Terrace bar open for informal discussion
Saturday
07:30 Breakfast
09:00 Session 2: Schubert:the fragility of life and beauty, wandering, death and resignation. Poetry:cycles and collections (Heine, Müller and Schubert)
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Session 3: Prose novels and Novellen (Novalis, Eichendorff, Hoffmann); Religion, Legends and Myths:The Grimm Brothers, Wagner; Folktales The Grimm Brothers, Humperdinck
12:30 Free
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Free
16:00 Tea
16:30
Session 4: Women (the salons, the poets, the visionaries); Art and Artists Caspar David Friedrich
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Session 5: Legends and Opera: Friedrich Kind and Carl Maria von Weber Der Freischütz
21:30 Terrace bar open for informal discussion
Sunday
07:30 Breakfast
09:00 Session 6: Romantic Opera: ETA Hoffmann, Spohr, Marschner, Lortzing, Flotow, Nicolai, Wagner
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Session 7: Lasting Influences (Mahler, Korngold, Richard Strauss)
12:30 Free
13:00 Lunch
Dietary requirements
If you have any specific dietary requirements or allergies please inform our Admissions Team on ice.admissions@ice.cam.ac.uk or +44 (0)1223 746262 if you have not already advised us of your requirements.
Additional requirements
ICE is committed to providing equality of opportunity and to a proactive and inclusive approach to equality. We aim to support and encourage under-represented groups, promote an inclusive culture, and value diversity.
Further information about student support.
Course materials
A booklist, course syllabus and detailed timetable are circulated as far as possible in advance of a course. You will receive these documents by email if you have provided us with your email address; please check your spam folder if you have not received these documents. You can also download material from the Documents section at the bottom of this page.