to add to the schwitters schtring that i was so seriously
confused about, i wanted to add that i found one of the sources
of my confusion:
it's the recording (from '58!) of the complete "ursonate"
performed by schwitters........ernst schwitters - his son.
from the liner notes (the recording also includes other
schwitters works):
"'An Anna Blume' (1919) was the most successful of his
poems. It was the highlight of my father's traditional
'Merz-evenings', lecture-recital evenings at his home in
Hanover, regularly attended by the Hanover intelligentsia, and
by artists and people interested in art from all over the world.
Eventually in 1927 the Sud-deutsche Rundfunk got my father to
recite this poem and his equally famous 'Sonate in Urlauten'.
The present L/P record begins and ends with the original two
recordings made at the time by my father. 'An Anna Blume' is a
conventional bourgeois declaration of love, interspersed with
sarcastic nonsense, to force us to smile at our futility".
"During those turbulent years of cultural development
Kurt Schwitters met and collaborated with other leading
Dadaists, Arp, Tzara, van Doesburg, Raoul Hausmann and others.
During a lecture tour in Prague in 1921, Kurt Schwitters heard
Raoul Hausmann's sound-poem 'fmsbw'. He immediately recognized
the potentialities of this new form of expression, and he
recited it constantly in his lectures calling it 'Portrait of
Raoul Hausmann'. The time had come to rebuild after destruction
and in more 'constructivist' period, which in Kurt Schwitters'
collages, paintings and sculpture extends from about 1923 to
about 1928, he built up slowly, but with great logic and
concentration, a totally abstract 'sound-poem', the 'Sonate in
Urlauten'. Over the years the Sonata grew, both in size and
variations, until it had little or no resemblance to Raoul
Hausmann's original poem. The original 'fmsbw' became 'fumms
bowotaa zaauu-pogiff-kwiiee!' and was merely part of one of the
many themes of the Sonata".
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