Mixed choir a cappella
with bass-solo - advanced
SKU: HL.49044128
Zwei Gesange nach
Texten von Friedrich
Hebbel und Gerda von
Robertus. Composed by
Rudi Stephan. Arranged by
Clytus Gottwald. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Choral. Octavo. Composed
1908/1911. 16 pages.
Duration 7'. Schott Music
#SKR20060. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49044128).
ISBN
9790001168915.
German.
He was
regarded as the German
hope among the composers
of his generation and as
'next man of New Music',
but his early death
quashed all such hopes of
the music scene: Rudi
Stephan died at the early
age of 28, leaving behind
instrumental works as
well as some songs in
which he admitted
expressionist concepts of
art, as were later
expressed mainly by the
Viennese School. Clytus
Gottwald has taken up the
cause of transcribing two
of the songs by this
composer, who died in the
First World War, for
nine-part mixed a
cappella choir
(SSAATTBBB) with solo
bass in his honour. In
spite of the Latin title,
Memento vivere is a
German-language secular
song based on a text by
Friedrich Hebbel which is
permeated by harmonies
sharpened with
dissonances. The music of
Kythere to words by Gerda
von Robertus is
characterized by the
excessive use of harmonic
shifts in the style of
Debussy.
CHANT - CHORALE
