Toccata

Robert Schumann, composer and writer, born in 1810 in Zwickau, died in 1856 in the lunatic asylum of Bonn-Endenich. 46 years of life.

What was the inner life of this man; what were his perceptions of the world?
What happens if his music materialises in the form of puppet figures on a stage?
An experiment with identities, intimations of another self, encounters with fantastic beings, ghosts and doppelgangers.

A kaleidoscope of intermingling motifs is created by a Hammond organ M3, words from Schumann’s diary, puppet figures and automatons; independently, as well as in amplification of each other, they produce a harmony.