Piano Accompaniment;
Soprano; String Quartet
(String Parts)
SKU:
HL.48025278
Text
from “Des Knaben
Wunderhorn†for
Soprano, Piano, String
Quar. Composed by
Erich Schmid. Edited by
Iris Eggenschwiler and
Lukas Naef. Boosey &
Hawkes Chamber Music.
Classical. Softcover. 28
pages. Bote & Bock
#M202537053. Published by
Bote & Bock
(HL.48025278).
UPC:
196288158561.
Erich
Schmid (1907 - 2000) was
an orchestra conductor,
choir director and
university lecturer who
promoted world premieres
and radiobroadcasts of
contemporary music in
Switzerland. He himself
studied with Bernhard
Sekles, among others,
then with Arnold
Schönberg and followed
the aesthetics of the New
Viennese School in his
compositions. The
historical-critical Erich
Schmid Edition publishes
for the first time all
sixteen opus-numbered
works as well as three
additional piano works.
The playfully inventive
cycle for voice, piano
and string quartet,
dedicated to his
“dear wifeâ€
Martha, brings together
short compositions
written in 1937-40.
“These are,â€
says Schmid, “12
small pieces in a wide
variety of
instrumentation and
different forms - some of
them twelve-tone pieces,
some of them in a
technique that comes
close. An attempt to
write music that is
technically easier to
perform.†The
arch-like overall form
combines folksong-like
vocal numbers on text
from “Des Knaben
Wunderhorn†with
solo pieces, quartet
movements and
counterpoint art on the
name of
“BACH†and
expresses Schmid's view
of music in a subtly
personal way.
Bernhard-Sekles
