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Music Text

Georg Trakl (1887-1914)

Scoring

3(III=picc.).2 (II=corA).2.3(III=dbn)-4.2.3(III=btrbn).1-timp.perc:crotales/SD/tam-t-harp-str

Abbreviations (PDF)

Publisher

Sikorski

Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes / Sikorski for the world.
World Premiere
23/11/2014
KuKo, Rosenheim
Musikverein Rosenheim / Thomas J. Mandl
Composer's Notes

‘Already during my first compositional occupation with the highly expressive poetry of Georg Trakl, which culminated in the ‘Miniatures’ for violin and piano, my plan to present a ‘classical’ setting matured.
Vierzehn - Tableau dramatique' for soloists, choir and orchestra now groups three poems from different years - to speak of phases of life would be almost presumptuous in view of the life span of only 27 years - to form an outline of the poet's life, indeed quite simply a chronology of destruction.
Again and again, formal and structural echoes of the Catholic funeral rite have crept in; overall, however, fragmentation prevails - especially at the beginning, when the verses of the ‘Romance to the Night’ are layered several times.
After an ‘In Paradisum’-like song by the solo violin and the setting of the poem ‘Klage’, the work culminates in the words ‘weißer Schlaf’ (white sleep) before it seems to implode.’ (Johannes X. Schachtner)

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