Voice and piano
SKU:
BR.EB-8888
Urtext. Composed
by Pauline
Viardot-Garcia. Edited by
Miriam-Alexandra Wigbers.
Voice. Edition Breitkopf.
Song; Romantic. Score.
112 pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #EB 8888.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-8888).
ISBN 9790004185117. 0
x 0 inches.
German.
The
piano-accompanied Lied is
undoubtedly the main
genre of Pauline
Viardot-Garcia's oeuvre.
With this volume, we
present settings of
German texts by such
poets as Ludwig Uhland,
Eduard Morike, Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe,
Heinrich Heine, Emanuel
Geibel, Ludwig Rellstab
and Richard Pohl. Except
for the Uhland settings,
these German Lieder were
written between 1862 and
1871 during Viardot's
Baden-Baden period, when
she shifted the focus of
her activities from
singing to composing and
teaching. Here she
worked, among other
things, on the poetry of
Eduard Morike, which she
called the greatest and
most genuine in all
German poetry after
Goethe.One of her first
published songs was the
setting of the Uhland
poem Des Knaben Berglied.
Accompanying herself on
the piano, she performed
it in 1838 on her first
concert tour of Germany.
A performance of the song
at the Leipzig Gewandhaus
prompted Robert Schumann
to remark: She showed
three talents here
[composition, singing and
piano playing], each of
which would grace its
artist. Through her
music, Viardot brings the
creatures in the poems to
life, tracing their
different characters and
inner states, thus giving
the texts a new level of
interpretation.
Mi
riam-Alexandra Wigber's
recordings of songs from
this edition can be found
on YouTube.
