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Songs by Robert and Clara Schumann
after texts by Heinrich Heine
Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe · Liederkreis op. 24
Clara Schumann: Loreley · Ich stand in dunklen Träumen
Sie liebten sich beide

Maximilian Schmitt, tenor
Gerold Huber, piano

The young tenor Maximilian Schmitt obtained his first vocal training as a member of the Regensburg Domspatzen. As of 1999, he began studying voice with Prof. Anke Eggers at Berlin’s University of Arts. In 2005 and 2006 he was a member of the young ensemble at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and gained further experience in master classes held by Ann Murray and Robert Dean Smith.
Maximilian Schmitt has been an ensemble member of the Mannheim State Theater since the 2008/2009 season and has sung roles such as David (Meistersinger) and lyric Mozart roles like Tamino, Don Ottavio or Ferrando.
In addition to his passion for opera, his activities as a concert singer are gaining increasing importance He has worked together with such conductors as Andrew Manze, Daniel Harding, Thomas Hengelbrock, Leopold Hager, Ulf Schirmer, Marcus Creed, Trevor Pinnock and Helmuth Rilling.
In the area of Lied, he regularly works together with Gerold Huber, who has gained an international reputation as the accompanist of Christian Gerhaher, for example.
This CD of Schumann songs based on texts by Heinrich Heine documents the cooperation of the two. The two major cycles Dichterliebe and Liederkreis op. 24 are complemented by three compositions by Clara Schumann.