Piano Accompaniment;
Soprano (Soprano)
SKU:
HL.49046394
Songs
for Soprano and
Piano. Composed by
Anno Schreier. Vocal
Solo. Classical.
Softcover. 48 pages.
Duration 1200 seconds.
Schott Music #ED23190.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49046394).
ISBN
9781540086570. UPC:
840126910186. 9.0x12.0
inches.
In 2010 I
lived in Rome as a Villa
Massimo scholarship
holder. During my time
there I came across a few
poems by Michelangelo
that touched me a lot and
soon had the plan to set
some of them to music.
But I wanted to combine
it with something
contemporary - just like
in Rome the old and the
new always meet. The poet
Marcel Beyer, whom I met
in Rome, then wrote the
cycle of poems Die
Grillmeisterin for me,
which takes up many
motifs from the
Michelangelo texts (fire,
tears, getting burned,
loneliness, etc.). I then
alternately combined this
cycle of poems with the
Michelangelo poems. The
Italian songs have a
sometimes melancholy,
sometimes dramatic
character, while the
German songs are rather
bizarre, sometimes even
humorous. Despite these
contrasts in character,
there are also many
musical connections
between the German and
Italian songs. Individual
motifs and chord
sequences sometimes
return in completely
different contexts, and
there is even a direct
connection between the
first and last song, in
that the same vocal line
is underlaid with a
completely different
text. This creates a
musical framework that
holds the very
heterogeneous selection
of texts together. -Anno
Schreier.