David Sawer
Stramm Gedichte
Duration: 12'
Text von: August Stramm
Dedication: for James Wood and the New London Chamber Choir
Choir: SATB
Sawer - Stramm Gedichte for mixed choir a cappella
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David Sawer
Sawer: Stramm Poems for satb choirOrchestration: for mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Type: Chorpartitur
Language: Deutsch
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August Stramm, born in 1874, was one of the most innovative poets of the First World War; his poems, made up of single words grouped together in strange rhythms, give an almost physical impression of the front: you really get the sense that Stramm is struggling to find a statement for his own experience (as a German commander) of the horrors and insanity of war. He was killed in action in September 1915.
I chose five poems and tried to give each a distinct musical character, each a painting in miniature of this extraordinary verse.
Stramm Gedichte is dedicated to James Wood and the New London Chamber Choir.