Medium Voice; Piano
Accompaniment (Low Voice)
SKU: HL.51481460
Low Voice and
Piano. Composed by
Richard Strauss. Edited
by Annette Oppermann.
Henle Music Folios.
Classical, Song Cycle.
Softcover. 40 pages. G.
Henle #HN1460. Published
by G. Henle
(HL.51481460).
UPC:
196288093046.
8.25x11.5x0.177
inches.
Written in
1885, the eight songs
after texts by the now
little-known poet Hermann
von Gilm have a special
place in Richard
StraussÂ’corpus of
Lieder. For the first
time, he composed an
entire set of songs on
texts by a single poet,
collecting them into one
opus that was also to
appear in print. Some of
the numbers in it, like
“Zueignung,â€
“Die Nacht,â€
and
“Allerseelen,â€
are among the most
popular Strauss songs of
all time, but the entire
cycle with its
well-planned structure is
also worthy of closer
examination and
performance. The aspiring
composer quite
consciously aligns
himself with the
tradition ranging from
Schubert to Wolf,
choosing the highly
Romantic subject of
unrequited love and
illuminating its most
diverse facets. The first
edition of op. 10,
published in 1887 for
high voice, was followed
during the composer's
lifetime by transposed
versions for middle and
low registers, something
that was then to become
the rule for all of
Strauss's songs. Henle
has returned to these
tried and tested
transpositions for its
own Urtext edition for
low voice, so as to offer
this wondrous song-cycle
to all voice ranges.
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