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Manuel Göttsching: Pays tribute to Willy Sommerfeld

  Tobias

The In-Memoriam-Event at the Berlinale will be composed of a screening of “The Sounds of Silents”, as well as a concert of Manuel Göttsching accompanying the classic film “The Haunted Castle (Schloss Vogelöd)” by W.F. Murnau. Conceptually, therefore, the performance will present a historical panopticum of Silent Movie-Music, beginning with  Sommerfeld’s earliest days and leading right up to the computer improvisations by Göttsching.

In the wake of the concert, the Goethe Institut will release a DVD containing a version of “The Haunted Castle” with Manuel’s soundtrack. A CD edit of that score, which also included a string- and wind-section, had already been released in 2005. With the publication of the DVD, therefore, it will now be available in its entirety for the first time ever.

The exact date of the Willy Sommerfeld tribute will be announced this week on Manuel Göttsching’s homepage.

Picture by Kim Jin-hee. Copyright MG. ART 2007.

Homepage: Manuel Göttsching
Homepage: Willy Sommerfeld/The Sounds of Silents
Homepage: Berlinale