"The book leads to a charming area of ​​Europe, to Latvia, where an intense musical life has developed over the centuries.The immense achievements of German music culture met the independent power of the Latvian Daina song treasure, which is now a World Heritage Site. Common musical moments, and even more often simultaneous things from the cultural history of both peoples, are woven into one another when viewed. The encounters with Beethoven friend Carl Amenda, the poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, the theater founder Otto Hermann von Vietinghoff, the travel impressions of Clara and Robert Schumann or Richard Wagner's Livonian key, as well as reports on the first Latvian song festivals and the development of the Latvian National Opera "Feuer und Nacht" by composer Jãnis Medin̜ś u. v. a. m. create a point of view that recognizes the mutual influences between the different cultures and recognizes the role of the Germans. Based on clear evidence and multilingual archive material, the monograph breaks new scientific ground."--Back cover.

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