Piano Accompaniment;
Soprano (Soprano)
SKU:
HL.48025145
Soprano (or Tenor) and
Piano. Composed by
Simon Laks. Boosey &
Hawkes Voice. Classical.
Softcover. 24 pages.
Duration 660 seconds.
Bote & Bock #M202537084.
Published by Bote & Bock
(HL.48025145).
ISBN
9783793144052. UPC:
196288096269. 0.102
inches.
A Pole with
Jewish roots, traveller
and student, the
versatile composer and
publicist Szymon Laks
developed his artistic
maturity inthe fertile
environment of the French
capital between the world
wars. Close to the Ecole
de Paris, Laks'
enthusiasm and openness
forpopular music,
neo-classicism and Polish
song can also be heard in
his works. His work was
abruptly interrupted by
the Second World War and
his deportation to the
Auschwitz concentration
camp. In the song cycle
created in 1947, which is
full of tension on the
frontiers between art
song and folklore, Laks'
most personal memories of
his mother's singing - as
well as of the Jewish
culture in Poland, which
was destroyed by National
Socialism - echo
through.