David Lancaster

Dragon Music Publishing

Trakl Songs - for soprano, flute and piano

SM-000322435
Compositor
David Lancaster
Lírico
Georg Trakl
tradutor
David Lancaster
Editora
Dragon Music Publishing
Gênero
Clássico / Música Vocal
Instrumentação
Piano, Flauta, Soprano
Composição para
Trio
Tipo de composição
Partitura completa, Parte de solo
duração
9'0"
idioma
Inglês
dificuldade
Difficult
Ano de composição
2016

descripção
These songs set words from three poems by the Austrian expressionist poet Georg Trakl (1887-1914):

• Grodek (songs 1,3 and 6)
• Delirium (songs 2 and 5)
• Sister’s Garden (song 4)

Trakl trained as a pharmacist and served in Poland during the early days of WWI, stewarding the recovery of some ninety soldiers who had been wounded in the fierce campaign against the Russians. He tried to shoot himself from the strain but his comrades prevented him. Hospitalized at a military hospital in Kraków, Trakl lapsed into worse depression and finally succumbed to an overdose of cocaine.

His poetry deals with several main themes which are repeated quite obsessively throughout his work: the evening (and the colour purple), silence (particularly the silence of the dead), his sister (who he portrays as both angel and whore) and images from nature, such as birds, trees and flowers, though never in a comforting pastorale. I hope that the music captures something of the despair, beauty and wild delirium of his poetry.

data de postagem
31 dez 2017

Preço

Sheet music file
10.00 USD
ZIP, 328.8 Kb

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