Othmar Schoeck
Notturno
Duration: 45'
Text von: Nikolaus Lenau, Gottfried Keller
Solos:
low voice
Instrumentation details:
1st violin
2nd violin
viola
violoncello
Schoeck - Notturno for low voice and string quartet
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Othmar Schoeck
Schoeck: Notturno for low voice and string quartet - op. 47
Available digitally
Orchestration: for low voice and string quartet
Type: Stimmensatz (Sonderanfertigung)
Language: Deutsch
Othmar Schoeck
Schoeck: Notturno for Voice and Stringquartet - op. 47
Available digitally
Orchestration: for low voice and string quartet
Type: Partitur (Sonderanfertigung)
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In his 45-minute work for low voice and string quartet or string orchestra, the Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck set to music poems of mourning, loneliness and despair by Nikolaus Lenau, as well as a fragment by Gottfried Keller. Schoeck chose the title Notturno for a reason: it matches the dark underlying character of the music which, with or without vocal parts (the first, extended movement has a long instrumental part), expresses the pain, the lamentation and the resignation of the narrator in a late-romantic style.