- General information
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Composition date:
1992
Revision dates: 2006
- Duration: 37 mn
- Publisher: Schott
- Dedication: à Mama Alice
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Libretto (details, author):
Georg Trakl
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Composition date:
1992
- Type
- Vocal music and instrument(s) [1 female voice and orchestra]
Detailed formation
- soloist: solo contralto
- 3 flutes (also 2 alto flutes), 2 oboes (also 2 English horns), 3 clarinets (also 2 bass clarinets), bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 2 trombones, tuba, timpani, 4 percussionists, guitar, harp, celesta, piano, 14 violins, 12 second violins, 10 violas, 8 cellos, 3 double basses, 3 five-strings double basses
Premiere information
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Date:
29 November 1993
Location:Suisse, Lausanne, Théâtre de Beaulieu (sans le n° IV)
Performers:Cornelia Kallisch : contralto, orchestre de la Suisse Romande, direction : Armin Jordan.
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Date:
25 April 2006
Location:[IV], Suisse, Bâle, Paul Sacher 100
Performers:Christiane Iven : contralto, Sinfonieorchester Basel, direction : Heinz Holliger ; 22 avril 2007, Monte Carlo, Auditorium Rainier III, par Cornelia Kallisch : contralto, Orchestre philharmonique de Monte Carlo, direction : Heinz Holliger.
Table of contents
- I. Ein Winterabend "Wenn der Schnee ans Fenster fällt"
- II. Nachtlied "Des Unbewegten Odem"
- III. Rondel "Verflossen ist das Gold der Tage"
- IV. Untergang "Aber den weißen Weiber sind die wilden"
- V. Trompeten "Unter verschnittenen Weiden.."