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Austrian musician (1904-1970)
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- United States of America
- pianist, composer
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2016-03-02 01:17:00
Franz Schubert Totengräbers Heimweh D852 (1825) to a text by Jakob Nikolaus, Reichsfreiherr von Craigher de Jachelutta. Composer and poet were almost exact contemporaries, and knew each other personally. Craigher de Jachelutta lived to 1855 having led an eventful, adventurous life. Schubert of course died young. "O Menschheit, o Leben! was soll's? o was soll's? Grabe aus, scharre zu! Tag und Nacht keine Ruh! Das Drängen, das Treiben, wohin? o wohin? Ins Grab, ins Grab, tief hinab!«" O, Mankind, O Life ! what's, it all for ? " The heavy pedalling rhythms suggest the repetitive, mechanical process of digging, the physical effort of hollowing out a grave. Yet, like Sisyphus, the gravedigger's work never ends: no sooner than the grave is dug, it's filled. All that struggle, to what avail? Then the final strophe which would be quite melodramatic were it not so heartfelt. O […]
2014-04-29 20:38:36
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“Here we again see the Berlin tendency towards hybrids; the great plans but tiny realization; great demands but tiny results; perfect reviewers but miserable musicians,” Felix Mendelssohn groused to a friend in the summer of 1841 after King Friedrich Wilhelm IV invited him to become general music director in the Prussian capital and focus on writing on grand oratorios and church music. Rebellious in spirit but smart enough not to offend a monarch, the composer went on to spend an unhappy but brief tenure tangling with court bureaucrats and a cool public that more or less validated his early skepticism. One consolation was the chance to indulge his predilection for the past and produce incidental music for classical Greek plays such as Sophocles’ Antigone and Oedipus in Kolonos, which were then coming back into vogue in German-speaking countries. His 75-minute setting of Oedipus in Kolonos, heard in a live […]
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