Music for the best of all possible worlds
The German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was convinced that we live in the best of all possible worlds. His understanding of hermony is now the guiding principle of an international composition competition. The driving force behind this is the Neue Ensemble Hannover.
According to the announcement, the international composition competition "Leibniz' Harmonies" focuses on Leibniz's ideas of musical harmony and our relationship to it today. In this way, it will bring science and art into contact with each other and with society worldwide on the occasion of the great anniversaries of the polymath in the coming year.
Some of Leibniz's aphorisms have become an integral part of music aesthetics. For example, he characterized music as a "hidden arithmetical exercise of the mind, which does not know that it is counting". When God calculates and executes the thought, the world comes into being.
The competition is organized by a partner network worldwide in eight languages. The premieres and re-performances will take place in Hanover and Beijing, among other places - by the NDR Radiophilharmonie and Das Neue Ensemble Hannover, as well as the Con Tempo Ensemble Beijing. Patrons are the German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China in Berlin, Shi Mingde.
More info: www.leibnizharmonien.de
