SKU: CA.410300 Composed by Franz Schreker. Edited by Iris Pfeiffer, Chris...(+)
SKU: CA.410300
Composed by Franz
Schreker. Edited by Iris
Pfeiffer, Christopher
Hailey. This edition:
Paperbound. German title:
Das Chorwerk. Sacred,
Motets, Psalms, German,
Secular Choral Music;
Occasions: Mourning,
Death. Collection. Carus
Verlag #CV 04.103/00.
Published by Carus Verlag
(CA.410300).
ISBN
9790007076054.
Fran
z Schreker had a long and
close association with
choral music. As founder
and director of Vienna's
Philharmonic Chorus he
led world premieres and
first performances of
works by contemporary
composers. It is
surprising, therefore,
that Schreker wrote
relatively few
independent choral works;
only three of these works
(with various scorings)
were published in his
lifetime. Now, for the
first time this critical
edition, prepared by
Christopher Hailey,
director of the Franz
Schreker Foundation,
makes available a body of
works that sheds new
light on Schreker's
musical evolution and, in
its own right,
constitutes a notable
addition to
twentieth-century choral
literature.
Composed by Franz
Schreker. Edited by
Christopher Hailey, Iris
Pfeiffer. Sacred vocal
music, Psalms, German.
Choral Score. Composed
1900. 8 pages. Duration
14 minutes. Carus Verlag
#CV 07.510/05. Published
by Carus Verlag
(CA.751005).
ISBN
9790007113407. Language:
German.
Franz
Schreker was an important
representative of the
Wiener Moderne and one of
the most successful opera
composers at the
beginning of the 20th
century. To conclude his
studies at the Vienna
Conservatory he set Psalm
116 for women's choir and
orchestra (1900) and
dedicated to his beloved
teacher Robert Fuchs, in
reverence. Fuchs, the
highly respected
composition teacher, was
a close friend of
Johannes Brahms and a
champion of Brahms's
romantic classicism.
Thus, Schreker's psalm
setting closely follows
the tonal language of
Brahms. In 1901 Psalm 116
was first performed in a
concert of the
Gesellschaft der
Musikfreunde in Vienna,
and was first published
in the same year by the
Viennese publisher Adolf
Robitschek. The scoring
of the psalm is identical
with that of Brahms's
Deutsches Requiem, which
would suggest and
facilitate a performance
of both these on the same
concert program. Score
available separately -
see item CA.751000.
Composed by Felix
Petyrek. Edited by Claus
Woschenko. Sacred vocal
music, Masses, Latin,
Whole church year / Omni
tempore. Choral Score.
Composed 1949. 32 pages.
Duration 25 minutes.
Carus Verlag #CV
27.089/05. Published by
Carus Verlag
(CA.2708905).
ISBN
9790007187101. Language:
Latin.
Besides
Ernst Krenek and the
Czech composer, Alois
Haba, Felix Petyrek
(1892-1951) was one the
most important pupils who
studied under Franz
Schreker in the latter's
early composition classes
in Vienna. In his Missa
phrygica, written in 1949
for four to eight voices
(it can be performed by a
choir with soloists/small
choir), Petyrek employs
elements of vocal
polyphony from the
Renaissance and early
Baroque in a very
personal, modern
contrapuntal fashion.
However, the brightness
of the splendid sonority
in both the Gloria and
Credo, obtained
essentially through the
use of chains of parallel
fifths, shows the
influence of his teacher,
Franz Schreker. Score
available separately -
see item CA.2708900.
By Franz Schreker (1878-1934). For 7 Wind Instruments, 11 Strings, Harp, Celeste...(+)
By Franz Schreker
(1878-1934). For 7 Wind
Instruments, 11 Strings,
Harp, Celeste, Harmonium,
Piano, Timpani,
Percussion. The New Study
Score Series. World
Premiere: in Musikverein
Wien / Austria; by the
Professoren der
Musikakademie; conducted
by Franz Schreker. Study
score. Composed 1916
Composed by Franz
Schreker. Edited by
Christopher Hailey, Iris
Pfeiffer. Secular choral
music. Vocal score. 4
pages. Duration 3
minutes. Carus Verlag #CV
07.606/03. Published by
Carus Verlag (CA.760603).
ISBN 9790007126384.
Language:
German.
Konig Tejas
Begrabnis (1899) shows
how Schreker was
influenced by his work
with the Doblinger
Mannergesangverein, of
which he was a member. In
this work he set a text
by Felix Dahn from Dahn's
historical novel, Ein
Kampf um Rom (1876),
which dealt with the
collapse of the eastern
Goths in the sixth
century. The four-verse
chorus, Gebt Raum, ihr
Volker, unserm Schritt,
is a verse taken from the
last chapter of the
novel. It describes how
the last surviving Goths
bring their fallen King
Teja back to the mythical
homeland of Thule. It is
true, that the majestic
work for four men's voice
is accompanied by a large
orchestra, however the
orchestral means are used
sparingly, whether to
support the choir, to
provide a background
(with string tremoli and
timpani), or to play
fanfares with horns and
trombones. Score
available separately -
see item CA.760600.
Score
and Parts. Composed
by Ignace Strasfogal.
Boosey & Hawkes Chamber
Music. Classical, Modern,
Neo Classical. Softcover.
76 pages. Bote & Bock
#M202535806. Published by
Bote & Bock
(HL.48025043).
UPC:
196288021728.
Ignac
e Strasfogel (1909 -
1994), a master student
of Franz Schreker and
Leonid Kreutzer, the
youngest student at the
Berlin Hochschule and the
youngest recipient of the
prestigious Mendelssohn
Prize of the Weimar
Republic, made a career
as a conductor at the
Metropolitan Opera after
his emigration in 1934.
His String Quartet No. 1,
probably written in 1927
as the final work of his
studies with Schreker, is
an early work of the
highest perfection. In
the first of the two
movements,
grotesque-capricious
scenariosare revitalized
by contrapuntal artistry.
The second, non less
polypohnic, is a widely
branched scherzo with an
elegiac trio section.
Just as striking is the
harmony: With
individually shaping of
all four parts, all
facets up to polytonality
and complete detachment
from functional tonality
are explored - in a
certain affinity with the
musical language of Alban
Berg, not without
tongue-in-cheek
references to the
neoclassicism of the
1920s. A just as original
as important contribution
to the quartet
repertoireof the early
twentieth century.
Composed by Franz
Schreker. Edited by
Christopher Hailey, Iris
Pfeiffer. This edition:
Paperbound. Secular choir
music. German title:
Konig Tejas Begrabnis.
Secular choral music.
Full score. Duration 3
minutes. Carus Verlag #CV
07.606/00. Published by
Carus Verlag (CA.760600).
ISBN 9790007112998.
Language:
German.
Konig Tejas
Begrabnis (1899) shows
how Schreker was
influenced by his work
with the Doblinger
Mannergesangverein, of
which he was a member. In
this work he set a text
by Felix Dahn from Dahn's
historical novel, Ein
Kampf um Rom (1876),
which dealt with the
collapse of the eastern
Goths in the sixth
century. The four-verse
chorus, Gebt Raum, ihr
Volker, unserm Schritt,
is a verse taken from the
last chapter of the
novel. It describes how
the last surviving Goths
bring their fallen King
Teja back to the mythical
homeland of Thule. It is
true, that the majestic
work for four men's voice
is accompanied by a large
orchestra, however the
orchestral means are used
sparingly, whether to
support the choir, to
provide a background
(with string tremoli and
timpani), or to play
fanfares with horns and
trombones.