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
wife” Martha, brings
together short
compositions written in
1937-40. “These are,”
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.
Allemagne
Bernhard-Sekles
