Orchestra (Study Score)
SKU: HL.49045924
Opera in 3 Acts Study
Score. Composed by
Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
This edition:
Hardback/Hard Cover.
Sheet music. Study Score.
Die tote Stadt war von
Anfang an ein
durchschlagender Erfolg.
Bei der Urauffuhrung 1920
war der Komponist
Korngold, der spater in
Hollywood Karriere als
Filmkomponist machte,
gerade einmal 23 Jahre
alt. Das Libretto, ein
vielschichtig
gebrochenes, morbide.
Classical, Opera.
Hardcover. Composed
1916-1919. Op. 12. 696
pages. Duration 8700
seconds. Eulenburg
Edition #ETP8113.
Published by Eulenburg
Edition (HL.49045924).
ISBN 9783795711764.
UPC: 888680949426.
8.0x10.5x1.8 inches.
German. Korngold -
Librettist: Paul Schott;
Author of Original Text:
Georges
Rodenbach.
This
masterpiece, composed by
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
when he was only 23, was
one of the great stage
successes of the 1920s
and 30s before being
removed from theatre
schedules by the National
Socialists. Rediscovered
in the 1970s, it has
enjoyed continuing
popularity ever since.
The libretto was compiled
by the composer's father,
the music critic Julius
Korngold, writing under
the pseudonym 'Paul
Schott', a combination of
the name of the
protagonist and the
publishing house. A
vivacious theatre group
comes to liven up the
gloomy city of Bruges
(here, a symbol of death)
and the widower Paul is
forced to decide between
the past and the present.
Korngold was fascinated
by this symbolic plot and
created an iridescent
orchestral score washed
in vivid colours. A
variety of operatic
devices are intermingled
as if viewed through a
kaleidoscope: opulent
melodic arias, advanced
harmonies, psychoanalytic
profundity and cinematic
transitions oscillating
between reality and dream
worlds guarantee the
continuing modernity of
this work up to the
present day.