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In cooperation with the Freundeskreis Carl Maria von Weber Hosterwitz e. V., a commemorative event will be held at the grave of Carl Maria von Weber to mark the 200th anniversary of his death.

The actor Johannes Gärtner will recite Richard Wagner's eulogy at the Old Catholic Cemetery, which was delivered here 200 years ago by Wagner himself. The event will be musically framed by pupils from the Landesgymnasium.

• With pupils from the Landesgymnasium für Musik and Johannes Gärtner (reading)

Photo: © Michael R. Hennig (DML-BY)

"Weber, are you really a famous man?", the director of the Dresden court theatre Wolf Adolf August von Lüttichau is said to have asked his Kapellmeister Weber when he realised that he was being enthusiastically celebrated in Berlin. Weber had to overcome many obstacles in his life before this could happen. Did he always "persistently" pursue his goal during this time - as he put it in the statutes of the "Harmonischer Verein" - or did he sometimes go astray?

Let us accompany the composer on his life's journey with the help of his son Max's vivid descriptions and the latest findings from the biography of Weber written by Christoph Schwandt.

• With Lutz Reike (lecture)
• Admission: €10 / reduced €8
• Please book in good time online or by calling the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on 0351 488 7272 (MO - FR).

In 1811, Lord Findlater died in his Loschwitz vineyard and left his secretary Fischer a gigantic fortune. In the subsequent inheritance dispute with the lord's Scottish relatives, Fischer was represented before the court in Edinburgh by the same Dresden lawyer Christian Gottlieb Eisenstuck who played a decisive role in the Kügelgen murder trial at the same time. Findlater's life and work will be presented.

• With Dr Martin Päckert and Frank Klyne (lecture)
• Admission: €10 / reduced €8
• Please book in good time online or by calling the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on 0351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri).

Klaus Günzel is one of the most renowned literary researchers in the GDR. He was a librarian at the Christian Weise Library in Zittau from 1957 and published numerous works, articles on classical German literature and above all on German Romanticism, which later became the focus of his work. From 1984 he lived as a freelance writer in the GDR and published several bibliographies, including on E. T. A. Hoffmann, Heinrich von Kleist and Ludwig Tieck. Uwe Kahl presents the writer's life and work.

• With Uwe Kahl (lecture)
• Admission: €10 / reduced €8
• Please book in good time online or by calling the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on 0351 488 7272 (MO - FR).

The fascinating biographies of the Kaskel family members are presented from the 18th to the 20th century.

• With Dr Matthias Donath (lecture)
• Admission: €10 / reduced €8
• Please book in good time online or by calling the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on 0351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri).
• In co-operation with the Sächsischer Musikverein e. V.

Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker (1753-1813) was one of the most important figures of the German late Enlightenment and one of the most active garden publicists around 1800. He played a key role in advancing the debate on the further development of landscape gardening in Germany. The lecture sheds light on Becker's personality, his garden theory works and approaches, which have largely been forgotten today. It also sheds light on his Dresden network, as he was a member of the "Körner Circle", among others.

• With Dr Anja Gottschalk (lecture)
• Admission: €10 / reduced €8
• Please book in good time online or by calling the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on 0351 488 7272 (MO - FR).
• In co-operation with the Dresdner Goethe-Gesellschaft e. V.

The name Schuch is not only known to the music world through the Dresden conductor and General Music Director of the Court Opera, Ernst Edler von Schuch. His wife Clementine von Schuch-Proska, his daughters Käthe and Liesel and his granddaughter, also called Clementine, also left their mark on music history as celebrated singers.

In his lecture, Bernhard Hansky, himself a singer at the Semperoper Dresden and elsewhere, sheds light on the lives of these fascinating artists, whose work spans more than a century of music history.

• With Bernhard Hansky (lecture)
• Admission: 10 € / reduced 8 €
• Please book in good time online or by calling the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on 0351 488 7272 (MO - FR).

The life of the Saxon court composer Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741-1801) led from Dresden via Italy, Sweden and Denmark back to the Dresden court, where he was engaged for the rest of his life. His fascinating biography and some of his marvellous compositions will be presented and illuminated.

• With Dr Romy Donath (lecture)
• Admission: €10 / reduced €8
• Please book in good time online or by calling the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on 0351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri).

the versatile composer and conductor Paul Aron was born in Dresden in 1886. He studied with Max Reger and initiated the music series "Neue Musik Paul Aron" in Dresden. in 1933, he first fled to Czechoslovakia and later to Cuba and the USA, where he died. Prof Dr Matthias Herrmann presents the life and work of the composer.

• With Prof Dr Matthias Herrmann (lecture)
• Admission: €10 / reduced €8
• Please book in good time online or by calling the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on 0351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri).
• In co-operation with the Sächsischer Musikverein e. V.

In the 19th century, the economically growing middle classes strived for more personal rights, freedoms and political participation - also in Dresden. Pictures, documents and reports by protagonists and observers vividly and closely depict the events of 1849 in Dresden.

• With Lutz Reike (lecture)
• Admission: 10 € / reduced 8 €
• Please book in good time online or by calling the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on 0351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri).

Alexandre Dumas, Henrik Ibsen and Ferdinand Kürnberger wrote so-called Catilina dramas in the context of the European revolution. Lucius Sergius Catilina was a Roman conspirator who tried to gain power by force and ultimately failed. The traditional perspective on the "villain" undergoes a gradual re-evaluation in literary works - but not without tradition: in the 18th century, Prosper Jolyot Crébillon and Voltaire stood against Giambattista Casti and Antonio Salieri.

• With Dr Jürgen Klose (lecture)
• Admission: €10 / reduced €8
• Please book in good time online or by calling the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on 0351 488 7272 (MO - FR).
• In co-operation with the Dresdner Goethe-Gesellschaft e.V.

Anti-Semitism was widespread in the 19th century. Some musicians and artists also made public anti-Semitic statements - most notably Richard Wagner. The fact that Carl Maria von Weber and his family were also anti-Semitic is particularly evident in Weber's strained relationship with his publisher Schlesinger. Prof Dr Schmuhl examines the sources on this topic for the first time.

• With Prof Dr Hans-Walter Schmuhl (lecture)
• Admission: €10 / reduced €8
• Please book in good time online or by calling the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on 0351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri).
• In co-operation with the Sächsischer Musikverein e. V.