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Karg-Elert Sigfrid - Songs for High and Medium Voice and Piano (G) (Urtext).


Karg-Elert, Sigfrid    (1877-1933)

Lieder    
Instrumentation: High voice, Middle voice, Piano

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* - Since the 1970s, Karg-Elert’s organ, harmonium and piano music has been systematically rediscovered, but his song compositio
Since the 1970s, Karg-Elert’s organ, harmonium and piano music has been systematically rediscovered, but his song compositions have not yet received the same attention. Wrongly so, for his approx. 200 solo songs are first-rate compositions, written in a wealth of different forms ranging from through-composed to strophic settings. The editors Ernst Breidenbach and Markus Schäfer have also contributed to the rediscovery of these gems with several concerts and a CD of selected songs.
The poems set by Karg-Elert come from five centuries: it is striking, though, that these include several authors who, although they were contemporaries of the composer, were wedded to the aesthetic ideals of the 19th century and whose poetry was more in the Classical and Romantic tradition than in line with current trends. A special case is the Lessing cycle, where the composer struck out in new directions with his choice of texts. Karg-Elert was regarded by his colleagues and in the music world as an outsider: he was interested not only in the German, but also in the European avantgarde around Debussy, Skriabin and the young Schoenberg, and this aesthetic orientation which crossed boundaries met with opposition in the increasingly conservative climate of the postwar years.
Contents
Op. 19 Die Kunstreiterin (1905) / Op. 52 Acht Gedichte (1905): Am Strande / Halbtraum / Wolken über See / Ausblick / Wie eine Aeolsharfe / Schwarze Rose / An eine Verlorene / Sterbender Schiffer / Op. 53 Stimmungen und Betrachtungen (1905): Lauf der Welt/ Träumende See / Anklang / Vision / Gruss / Op. 56 Zehn Epigramme von Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1907) / W 33 Drei Gedichte (aus: Stundenleid und Ewigkeit): Wach auf (1916) / Zwiefacher Text / Kapitän Tod / W 34 Zuletzt (1916) / W 4 Müde (1900)
- First Urtext edition, based on the first editions
- Discovery of a new, highly interesting repertoire
- Detailed foreword (Ger/Eng)
- Translation of the song texts (Ger/Eng)

 

Additional Information:

Geleitwort / Introductory Note
Vorwort / Preface
Liedtexte / Song Texts
Lieder in Originallage / Lieder in original pitch:
Müde, W 4 (Freiherr von Liliencron)
Die Kunstreiterin, op. 19 (Ada Christen)
Acht Gedichte für eine mittlere Singstimme mit Klavier, op. 52:
Am Strande (Hermann Allmers)
Halbtraum (Otto von Leixner)
Wolken über See (Ferdinand Avenarius)
Ausblick (Friedrich Rückert)
Wie eine Äolsharfe (Ferdinand von Saar)
Schwarze Rose (Melanie Barth)
An eine Verlorene (Prinz Emil zu Schönaich Carolath)
Sterbender Schiffer (Karl Woermann)
Stimmungen und Betrachtungen. Fünf Gedichte für eine (hohe) Stimme mit
Klavier, op. 53:
Der träumende See (Julius Mosen)
Lauf der Welt (Karl Müller)
Anklang (Heinrich Heine)
Vision (Heinrich Heine)
Gruß (Heinrich Heine)
Zehn Epigramme von Lessing für eine Singstimme mit Klavier, op. 56:
Als Prolog für den Hörer
Auf Frau X
Auf sich selbst
Mein Esel
Geschwind
An den Genuss
Aus dem Spanischen
Ein Unterschied
An eine sechsjährige Schöne
Als Epilog für den Hörer
Drei Gedichte von Gustav Schüler für eine Singstimme mit Klavier,
W 33:
Wach auf
Zwiefacher Text
Kapitän Tod
Zuletzt, W 34 (Gustav Schüler)
Anhang / Appendix (Transponierungen für hohe Stimme / Transpositions
for high voice):
Ze

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