Martin Smolka (1959)

Walden, the Distiller of Celestial Dews (2000)

for mixed choir and percussionist

  • General information
    • Composition date: 2000
    • Duration: 19 mn
    • Publisher: Breitkopf & Härtel
    • Commission: SWR - Donaueschinder Musiktage
    • Libretto (details, author):

      Henry David Thoreau

Detailed formation
  • mixed choir à 32 voix (8 soprano, 8 viola, 8 tenor, 8 baritone)
  • percussionist

Premiere information

  • Date: 22 October 2000
    Location:

    Allemagne, Donaueschingen, Donaueschinger Musiktage


    Performers:

    SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart ; Meinhard Jenne : percussion ; Rupert Huber : direction.

Table of contents

1. Pleiades
2. Lake
3. Indians
4. Blackberries
5. Cypress