Medium Voice; Piano
Accompaniment (Medium
Voice)
SKU:
HL.49045824
Medium
Voice and Piano.
Composed by Max Kowalski.
Edited by Luitgard
Schader. Vocal Solo.
Classical. Softcover. 44
pages. Duration 1680
seconds. Schott Music
#ED22586. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49045824).
Max Kowalski
(18821956) was a
full-time lawyer who
never gave up on his
passion for music:
singing lessons during
his law studies,
conducting and
counterpoint classes,
among others, at Dr.
Hochs Konservatorium in
addition to his work at
his own law office in
Frankfurt. While
studying, he already
published his first
works; 15 song cycles
were published until
1933. In the years that
followed, the Jewish-born
Kowalski was restricted
in working both as a
lawyer and as a composer
due to his persecution by
the National Socialists.
In 1938 he was arrested,
deported to the
concentration camp of
Buchenwald and finally
forcedto flee into exile
in London. Contemporaries
called Kowalski a
lyricist among the
composers. The choice of
texts of his songs shows
his great knowledge and
love of German
literature. For example,
he set to music texts by
Friedrich Holderlin or
Rainer Maria Rilke, but
also Indian or Japanese
poems. Kowalski left
numerous unpublished
songs which are published
by Schott Music in a
two-volume edition:
Volume 1 (ED 22586)
contains his Jewish songs
(1935-37), the Heinrich
Heine cycle (1937) and
all English-language
songs (1941-46). Volume 2
(ED 22587) contains
Kowalski's late works:
the songs based on texts
by Friedrich Holderlin
(1950) and the Geisha
Lieder according to
Klabund (1951).