Cercle Beethoven

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The Cercle Beethoven (Beethoven Circle) was a French - East German cultural relationship that existed from the late 1950s to 1968.

Goals, participants

The aim was a cultural exchange and a basic dialogue between French and GDR artists and cultural scientists . The starting point was the collaboration between the French musicologist Brigitte Massin and her Swiss colleague Harry Goldschmidt, who lives in the GDR . Her husband Jean Massin and the soprano Irèn Joachim also belonged to the circle .

Activities (selection)

  • 1958 Beethoven exhibition in Paris

Parallels

In a similar context or at the same times, there were a. a Heine circle and a Dürer circle.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Wenkel: In search of a "different Germany" on De Gruyter Odenbourg , pp. 216-217, ISBN 978-3-486-70312-2 , eISBN 978-3-486-71931-4, accessed on 22. February 2019