Unmöglichkeiten sind die schönsten Möglichkeiten

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, born in 1929 in Berlin and passed away in 2016, founded his ensemble for Early Music, the Concentus Musicus, in 1953. As a conductor, he received numerous international awards, including the Polar Music Prize and the Erasmus Prize. Sabine M. Gruber, born in 1960 in Linz on the Danube, studied literary translation (French, Russian) and harpsichord in Vienna. She writes novels, short stories, and music essays, and lives as a freelance writer and music journalist in Klosterneuburg near Vienna. Her published works include: "Der Schmetterlingsfänger" (novel, 1999), "Michaels Verführung" (novel, 2003), "Mit einem Fuss in der Frühlingswiese. Ein Spaziergang durch Haydns Jahreszeiten mit Sprachbildern von Nikolaus Harnoncourt" (2009), "Kurzparkzone" (short stories, 2010). She received the Literature Prize of the State of Lower Austria in 2002. Most recently, Residenz published the expanded new edition: "Unmöglichkeiten sind die schönsten Möglichkeiten" (2024).