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- Nacht (Carl Hauptmann)
- Schilflied (Nikolaus Lenau)
- Die Nachtigall (Theodor Storm)
- Traumgekrönt (Rainer Maria Rilke)
- Im Zimmer (Johannes Schlaf)
- Liebesode (Otto Erich Hartleben)
- Sommertage (Paul Hohenberg)
Urtext
for | Voice (soprano), orchestra |
Musical Editions | Violin 2 (orchestral part) |
Item no. | 635913 |
Author / Composer | Alban Berg |
Editor | Michael Kube |
Scope | 8 pages; 25 × 32 cm |
Duration | 16 minutes |
Release year | 2015 |
Publisher / Producer | Breitkopf & Härtel |
Producer No. | OB 5534-16 |
ISMN | 9790004341773 |
Written early, orchestrated late
The cycle Seven Early Songs on texts by Lenau, Rilke, Storm and other poets was put together in 1928, more than 20 years after the composition of the individual songs. From the large amount of songs for voice and piano that he had written in his early years, Alban Berg selected seven of them which he then orchestrated. After serious consideration, he laid down a definitive sequence in which the tempo constantly alternates while the orchestral instruments symmetrically recede before picking up again. Once the piano and orchestral editions were printed, the Seven Early Songs quickly conquered concert halls in both scorings. They are still at home on the concert stages of the world today which is reason enough to present this work by Alban Berg in an Urtext edition following the Violin Concerto. The orchestral material can now be purchased for the first time.
Instrumentation: solo: vce - 2(picc).2(cor ang).2.B-clar.2.dble bsn. - 4.1.2.0. - timp.perc - hp - cel - str
Urtext
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 635671
Urtext
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 688012
Urtext
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 635914
Urtext
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 635912
Urtext
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 635911
Urtext
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 635909
Urtext
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 635910