Voice(s) and organ
SKU: BR.EB-8839
Composed by Antonin
Dvorak. Arranged by
Klaus-Uwe Ludwig. Voice;
stapled. Edition
Breitkopf.
Text
underlay in Czech and
German
Romantic
period. Score. 36 pages.
Breitkopf and Haertel #EB
8839. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.EB-8839).
ISBN
9790004184189. 9 x 12
inches. German /
Czech.
Grief,
Solace, and Trust The
10-lieder cycle, Biblical
Songs op. 99, was
composed in the spring of
1894 in New York City,
where Antonin Dvorak
lived for nearly two
years. Homesickness and
sad news of the death of
composer friends,
together with his own
father's poor state of
health, may have prompted
Dvorak to choose the
intimate form and
religious subject. All of
the cycle's texts derive
from the Book of Psalms
in the Old Testament.
Klaus Uwe Ludwig's moving
organ arrangement, close
to the original, is based
on the Dvorak Complete
Edition. In translating
the text from Czech to
German, Ludwig respected
to the utmost the content
and speech rhythms
paramount in the
original.
Dvorák, Anton
