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Kurt Weill
Das Berliner Requiem, for tenor, baritone, male choir (or 3 male voices) and orchestra
Text von: Kurt Weill Bertolt Brecht
Herausgeber: David Drew
Bearbeitung: David Drew
UE16630
Type: Studienpartitur
Languages: Deutsch
Format: 170 x 240 mm
ISBN: 9783702407100
Pages: 44
ISMN: 979-0-008-02474-0
Description
In 1928, the Frankfurter Sender commissioned a new work from Kurt Weill. The result was the Berliner Requiem, based on existing texts from Bertolt Brecht's Hauspostille. Weill was working at the time on the opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, and used the Berliner Requiem as a welcome opportunity for a stylistic study for the longer opera. But the Berliner Requiem is also a powerful and important work in its own right. “The title The Berliner Requiem is in no way ironic – rather, we wanted to try to express what the citydweller thinks about death. The piece is a series of laments, memorials and epitaphs – so, in the end, a secular requiem.” (Weill) The version most often played in concert halls has six parts – 1. Chorale of Thanks Lobet die Nacht, 2. Ballad of the drowned girl, 3. Shrine – Hier Ruht die Jungfrau, 4. First report and 5. Second Report on the unknown soldier under the triumphal arch, 6. Chorale of Thanks Lobet die Nacht. ... (da capo). An alternative authorised version (the Lucerne version) also includes the sections Die Rote Rosa and Zu Potsdam Unter Den Eichen.
Contents
Ballade vom ertrunkenen Mädchen
Epitaph: Die rote Rosa
Erster Bericht über den unbekannten Soldaten unter dem Triumphbogen
Zweiter Bericht über den unbekannten Soldaten: Alles, was ich euch sagte
Zu Potsdam unter den Eichen
Großer Dankchoral: Lobet die Nacht
More information
Type: Studienpartitur
Languages: Deutsch
Format: 170 x 240 mm
ISBN: 9783702407100
Pages: 44
ISMN: 979-0-008-02474-0