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THE POETIC MUSE: GOETHE, SCHUBERT and the ART of SONG Lorraine Byrne Bodley Anyone Who Ventures Into the Vast Regions of The
THE POETIC MUSE: GOETHE, SCHUBERT AND THE ART OF SONG Lorraine Byrne Bodley Anyone who ventures into the vast regions of the 19th-century Lied meets a powerful presence almost immediately. Time and again the text is by Goethe, whose lyric imagination left an indomitable imprint on European music history. Even a cursory glance at Friedlaender’s Das deutsche Lied bears testimony to multiple settings of Goethe’s poems and the range and variety of this abundant repertoire is immediately striking. Ernst Challier’s Grosser Lieder-Katalog gives further evidence of the musicality of Goethe’s language and its location of meaning at the cradle of the Lied. Schubert’s first masterpiece, ‘Gretchen am Spinnrade’, was a setting of a dramatic scene from Goethe’s Faust. The earliest songs of Reichardt, Spohr, Loewe, Brahms and Wagner were to texts by Goethe, which raises the question as to the reasons for the poet’s influence. Yes, Goethe was a supreme lyric poet. The binding force of form and meaning, or rhythm and sense, that characterizes Goethe’s lyric poetry offered composers a wealth of material with which to cut their compositional cloth. Yes, Goethe was an object of admiration, even veneration, throughout the 19th century and the sheer quantity and variety of music his poetry has inspired signals the huge fascination exerted by his writing and his personality. Yet the steadfastness of his occupancy of the Lied goes beyond these explanations. Deeper currents must explain why Goethe’s poetry goes hand in glove in our musical heritage. From the time he burst onto the literary scene with the publication of Die Leiden des jungen Werther in 1774 until long after his death in 1832, Goethe was a catalyst for many composers who wanted to challenge what song could be. -
The Classical Station, WCPE 1 Start Runs Composer Title Performerslib # Label Cat
Tue, Jan 26, 2021 - The Classical Station, WCPE 1 Start Runs Composer Title PerformersLIb # Label Cat. # Barcode 00:01:30 10:39 Mozart Adagio in B minor, K. 540 Mitsuko Uchida 00264 Philips 412 616 028941261625 00:13:3945:17 Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. du Pre/Swedish Radio 07040 Teldec 85340 685738534029 104 Symphony/Celibidache 01:00:2631:11 Beethoven String Quartet No. 9 in C, Op. Tokyo String Quartet 04508 Harmonia 807424 093046742362 59 No. 3 Mundi 01:32:3708:09 Mozart Adagio & Fugue in C minor for Berlin 06660 DG 0005830 028947759546 Strings K. 546 Philharmonic/Karajan 01:42:1618:09 Telemann Paris Quartet No. 11 Kuijken 04867 Sony 63115 074646311523 Bros/Leonhardt 02:01:5529:22 Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, Frang/Rysanov/Arcang 12341 Warner 08256462 825646276776 K. 364 elo/Cohen Classics 76776 02:32:1726:39 Brahms Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. Stoltzman/Ax/Ma 02937 Sony 57499 074645749921 114 Classical 03:00:2611:52 Liszt Mephisto Waltz No. 1 Evgeny Kissin 06623 RCA 58420 828765842020 03:13:1834:42 Strauss, R. Symphony in D minor Hong Kong 03667 Marco Polo 8.220323 73009923232 Philharmonic/Scherme rhorn 03:49:0009:52 Schubert Overture to Rosamunde, D. Leipzig Gewandhaus 00217 Philips 412 432 028941243225 797 Orchestra/Masur 04:00:2215:04 Haydn Piano Sonata No. 50 in D Julia Cload 02053 Meridian 84083 N/A 04:16:2628:32 Mozart Symphony No. 29 in A, K. 201 Prague Chamber 05596 Telarc 80300 089408030024 Orch/Mackerras 04:45:58 12:20 Webern In the Summer Wind Philadelphia 10424 Sony 88725417 887254172024 Orchestra/Ormandy 202 04:59:4806:23 Lehar Merry Widow Waltz Richard Hayman 08261 Naxos 8.578041- 747313804177 Symphony 42 05:07:11 21:52 Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Entremont/Philadelphia 04207 Sony 46541 07464465412 Paganini, Op. -
A Psychoanalytic Reading of the Character Mignon on Her Journey Through Nineteenth Century Lieder
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by The University of North Carolina at Greensboro ALBERT, ANNE E., D.M.A. Fragments: A Psychoanalytic Reading of the Character Mignon on Her Journey Through Nineteenth Century Lieder. (2009) Directed by Dr. Robert Wells. 58pp. The songs of Mignon from Goethe’s novel Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre) have been set hundreds of times by dozens of composers from the late 18th century onward. Though most frequently set by composers from the German School, Mignon’s songs have also been popular with many non-Germans including works by French, Russian, and Italian composers. Mignon’s mysterious persona has long fascinated song composers and many have been compelled to set her songs multiple times. The purpose of this study is to explore the character of Mignon from Goethe’s novel, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship through the lens of a psychoanalytic literary critic. I will examine six different composer’s settings of Mignon’s first song in the novel, “Kennst du das Land?” in order to understand how each composer portrays her character differently as seen through their unique compositional styles, their own psychology, and the style periods in which they wrote. The method of literary criticism applied to the song settings becomes psychoanalytic reader-response criticism as we move from merely analyzing Goethe’s depiction of Mignon to each composer’s depiction and reception of Goethe’s character in addition to our own reception of that persona. One of the goals of this research is to show how Mignon’s character is transformed as she makes her way through history in the development of Lieder. -
Gold Medal 2018
Thursday 10 May 7pm, Barbican Hall Gold Medal 2018 Finalists Ljubica Stojanovic Dan-Iulian Drut¸ac Joon Yoon Guildhall Symphony Orchestra James Judd conductor Guildhall School of Music & Drama Barbican Founded in 1880 by the Gold Medal 2018 City of London Corporation Please try to restrain from coughing until the normal breaks in the performance. Chairman of the Board of Governors Thursday 10 May 2018 If you have a mobile phone or digital watch, Deputy John Bennett 7pm, Barbican Hall please ensure that it is turned off during the Principal performance. The Gold Medal, the Guildhall School’s premier Lynne Williams In accordance with requirements of the award for musicians, was founded and endowed Vice–Principal and Director of Music licensing authority, sitting or standing in in 1915 by Sir H. Dixon Kimber Bt MA Jonathan Vaughan any gangway is not permitted. No cameras, tape recorders, other types of Please visit our website at gsmd.ac.uk Finalists recording apparatus may be brought into the auditorium. It is illegal to record any Ljubica Stojanovic piano performance unless prior arrangements Dan-Iulian Drut¸ac violin have been made with the Managing Director Joon Yoon piano and the concert promoter concerned. No eating or drinking is allowed in the The Jury auditorium. Smoking is not permitted Donagh Collins anywhere on the Barbican premises. Kathryn Enticott Paul Hughes Barbican Centre James Judd Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS Jonathan Vaughan (Chair) Administration: 020 7638 4141 Box Office Telephone Bookings: Guildhall Symphony Orchestra 020 7638 8891 (9am-8pm daily: booking fee) James Judd conductor barbican.org.uk The Guildhall School is part of Culture Mile: culturemile.london The Guildhall School is provided by the City of London Corporation as part of its contribution to the cultural life of London and the nation Gold Medal winners since 1915 Gold Medal 2018 Singers 1979 Patricia Rozario 1947 Mary O White Ljubica Stojanovic piano 1915 Lilian Stiles-Allen 1981 Susan Bickley 1948 Jeremy White Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. -
Turned Adventurer in Her Stanford Home Studio
MOUNTAINVIEWVOICE SECTION"SUT&WFOUT By Rebecca Wallace now in August. Grizzly bears paw- ing the moss for food. Icebergs and Sice cliffs and a raucous river. In the middle of it all, there was Sukey Bryan, unscrolling thick rolls of paper on the ground to draw and paint Alaska. She was doing a 10-day artist resi- "SUJTU dency in the Denali National Park and Preserve, gathering sketches and quick acrylic paintings that she would later use to create her oil paintings and prints back turned adventurer in her Stanford home studio. She was also taking photos, thousands of them. “It was such a profound feeling to be alone in such wild immensity. I just can’t shake it,” Bryan later wrote in an artist’s statement. Three years later, those 10 days con- tinue to yield rich inspiration for Bryan, as seen in her prints and giant paintings of ice formations, waterfalls, peaks, rivers and snow. She’s exhibiting sev- eral works this fall at the Community School of Music and Arts in Mountain View in a Mohr Gallery solo show called “Glacier Works.” Sukey Bryan The show runs through Nov. 27 at CSMA, 230 San Antonio Circle. Works will include “Ice Walls,” a trip- tych of oil paintings depicting the chilly blues of ice walls above a river floating with ice chunks. The darknesses buried in the blues hint at the cliffs’ depths, the silt in the ice and the mud in the water. “The ice has a strangeness to it,” Bryan says in her studio, a converted, comfortably large garage with natural light and sweeping white walls. -
Navigating, Coping & Cashing In
The RECORDING Navigating, Coping & Cashing In Maze November 2013 Introduction Trying to get a handle on where the recording business is headed is a little like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall. No matter what side of the business you may be on— producing, selling, distributing, even buying recordings— there is no longer a “standard operating procedure.” Hence the title of this Special Report, designed as a guide to the abundance of recording and distribution options that seem to be cropping up almost daily thanks to technology’s relentless march forward. And as each new delivery CONTENTS option takes hold—CD, download, streaming, app, flash drive, you name it—it exponentionally accelerates the next. 2 Introduction At the other end of the spectrum sits the artist, overwhelmed with choices: 4 The Distribution Maze: anybody can (and does) make a recording these days, but if an artist is not signed Bring a Compass: Part I with a record label, or doesn’t have the resources to make a vanity recording, is there still a way? As Phil Sommerich points out in his excellent overview of “The 8 The Distribution Maze: Distribution Maze,” Part I and Part II, yes, there is a way, or rather, ways. But which Bring a Compass: Part II one is the right one? Sommerich lets us in on a few of the major players, explains 11 Five Minutes, Five Questions how they each work, and the advantages and disadvantages of each. with Three Top Label Execs In “The Musical America Recording Surveys,” we confirmed that our readers are both consumers and makers of recordings. -
Lierbergercollege of Fine Arts
CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by ASU Digital Repository SONIC GEOGRAPHY THE MUSIC OF JOHN LUTHER ADAMS ACME GLENN HACKBARTH, DIRECTOR STUDENT ENSEMBLE RECITAL SERIES KATZIN CONCERT HALL FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2007 7:30 PM MUSIC lierbergerCollege of Fine Arts ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Program The Light That Fills the World Sarah Bowlin, violin Christopher Rose, bass Bill Sallak and Matt Coleman, percussion Jennifer Waleczek and Patrick Fanning, synthesizer Eric Schultz, sound ...and bells remembered... Bill Sallak, Jesse Parker, Yi-Chia Chen, Darrell Thompson, Matt Coleman, percussion Eric Schultz, conductor Dark Waves Jennifer Waleczek and Patrick Fanning, piano Eric Schultz, sound **There will be a 10-minute intermission** Dark Wind Josh Bennett, bass clarinet Yi-Chia Chen and Jesse Parker, percussion Patrick Fanning, piano James Smart, conductor Red Arc/Blue Veil Yi-Chia Chen, percussion Jennifer Waleczek, piano Eric Schultz, sound Out of respect for the performers and those audience members around you, please turn all beepers, cell phones and watches to their silent mode. Thank you. ittyRE Performance Events Staff Manager Paul W. Estes Senior Event Mangers: Iftekhar, Anwar, Laura Boone, Edwin Brown, Brady Cullum, Eric Damashek, Mirel DeLaTorre, Anthony Garcia, Ingrid Israel Xian Meng, Kevan Nymeyer Apprentice Event Managers: Lee E. Humphrey, Megan Leigh Smith Events Information Call 480-965-TUNE (480-965-8863) 02006 ASU Herberger College of Fine Arts 0706. -
A Comparison of Robert Schumann's and Hugo Wolf's Settings
A COMPARISON OF ROBERT SCHUMANN’S AND HUGO WOLF’S SETTINGS OF GOETHE’S MIGNON LIEDER A RESEARCH PAPER SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE MASTER OF MUSIC BY CARRIE RIVERA JOSEPH LEVITT – ADVISOR BALL STATE UNIVERSITY MUNCIE, IN MAY 2012 2 The nine poems presented throughout Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Lehrjahre have continued to fascinate German composers for the last three centuries. Of the three characters represented in these poems throughout the novel, one character in particular has remained the most fascinating, the character of Mignon. While at the same time seeming to possess a naïve quality about her, Mignon is also tainted by the suffering she had faced throughout her short life. In an attempt to capture what composers perceived as the true character of Mignon, several have set her poems to music. Of the many musical settings of the Mignon poetry found today, two stand out among the rest, that of Robert Schumann and Hugo Wolf. In order to find which composer’s musical setting best represents the complex character of Mignon, this study will consist of comparing Schumann’s and Wolf’s settings of the Goethe’s four Mignon poems to the character descriptions of Mignon found in Eric A. Blackwell and Victor Lange’s English translation of Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Lehrjahre. The four poems that will be looked at include Goethe’s “Kennst du das Land?” “Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt,” Heiss mich nicht reden,” and “So lasst mich scheinen.” While several past studies have claimed Hugo Wolf’s setting of the Mignon lieder to be far superior to all other settings in its ability to represent the character of Mignon in the music, this study will instead strive to demonstrate how Robert Schumann’s musical setting of Goethe’s Mignon lieder best represents the character of Mignon. -
Louis Andriessen : the New Yorker
Louis Andriessen : The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2010/05/03/100503cr... MUSICAL EVENTS Louis Andriessen’s “La Commedia,” at Carnegie, and other premières. by Alex Ross MAY 3, 2010 Andriessen summons up a panorama of decadence, agony, and almost insolent joy. n November, 1969, a group of radical young Dutch musicians ran amok at the Concertgebouw, the fabled Amsterdam concert hall. At the start of a performance by the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the troublemakers, who included the composers Louis Andriessen and Reinbert de Leeuw, began making noise with nutcrackers, rattles, bicycle horns, and other devices. They also distributed leaflets denouncing the orchestra as a “status symbol of the ruling élite.” The Netherlands being both a tradition-minded and a tolerant land, the Nutcracker Action, as it was called, elicited an ambivalent response: the provocateurs were summarily ejected from the hall, but their ideas prompted much serious discussion. Forty years on, the Nutcrackers have become eminences: Andriessen is the most influential of Dutch composers, and de Leeuw, who has focussed on conducting, has held posts from Tanglewood to Sydney. Yet they haven’t quite sold out. Although Andriessen occupies the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall—the kind of big-money post that his younger self might have mocked—Carnegie’s recent survey of Andriessen’s work and that of his colleagues and protégés, de Leeuw among them, has revealed an undiminished capacity for making mischief. The composer still resists Romantic trappings, favoring what he has called a “terrifying twenty-first- century orchestra” of electric guitar, keyboards and Hammond organ, saxophones, bongos, and other non-Wagnerian instruments. -
California State University, Northridge Collaborative Piano Recital Works by Mozart, Schumann, Schubert, Barber and Stravinsky
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE COLLABORATIVE PIANO RECITAL WORKS BY MOZART, SCHUMANN, SCHUBERT, BARBER AND STRAVINSKY An Graduate project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements For the degree of Master of Music in music, in Performance By Ningqi Li May 2016 The Graduate Program of Ningqi Li is approved: _____________________________________ _______________________ Dr. Soo-Yeon Chang Date _____________________________________ _______________________ Dr. Murray, Deanna Date _____________________________________ _______________________ Dr. Dmitry Rachmanov. Chair Date California State University, Northridge ii Table of Contents Signature Page ii Abstract iv Program (Collaborative Piano Recital) 1 iii ABSTRACT COLLABORATIVE PIANO RECITAL WORKS BY MOZART, SCHUMANN, SCHUBERT, BARBER AND STRAVINSKY BY Ningqi Li Master of Music in Music, in performance Violin Sonata in E Minor, K.304 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart lived from 1756 to 1791 in Salzburg. He composed more than 600 brilliant pieces of music such as sonatas, symphonies, concerti, operas, choral pieces, etc. He traveled with his family to Europe many times and The European style influenced him. He also influenced many later composers including Beethoven. In 1777 and 1778, he traveled to Europe again and he fell in love with Aloysia Weber. However, his mother then got sick and died in the same year. Violin Sonata in E Minor, K.304 is special to Mozart, he wrote it in 1778. That year he had traveled to Mannheim, therefore he must have taken some style from there. Also, it was written around his mother’s death. The sonata K.304 may reflect his sad mood and iv it is the only minor key in his violin sonatas. -
Robert Schumann on the Poems of Heinrich Heine
DICHTERLIEBE opus 48 A Cycle of Sixteen. Songs by Robert Schumann on the poems of Heinrich Heine An Honors Thesis (Honrs 499) by Shawn L. Harrington Thesis Advisor (u,r$/ Mr. John Meadows", . " (! jl'lrli{Lul ~t;(,cY\' Ball State University Muncie, Indiana November, 1995 Expected date of graduation 12/95 !J,:'( ! __ <l !.", .,.' , j:L. ' .. " Purpose of Thesis This project has two components: a written discussion of the music of the Dichterliebe, and the lives of the composer Robert Schumann and the poet Heinrich Heine; and an audio tape of my performance of the Dichterliebe. The performance was the culmination of my study of the Dichterliebe, in particular, and of my voice studies, in general. Through the performance, I set out to share the wonderful music and poetry of the Dichterliebe as well as share my musical and vocal growth over the past four years. The written portion of the project was undertaken to satisfy my personal curiosity of the men who wrote the music and the poetry of the Dichterliebe. A study of the music without knowing the man who composed it or the man who wrote the words would be only half complete at best. Likewise, a study of the men and not the music would also be incomplete. That is why I included both venues of learning and experiencing in this project; and that is why I have included an audio tape of the performance with this written report. Acknowledgements I would like to thank my voice instructor (and thesis advisor), John Meadows. Without his expertise, advise, and instruction, I would not have been able to present the Dichterliebe in a performance. -
History of Music
HISTORY OF MUSIC THE ROMANTIC ERA Created by J. Rogers (2015) 2 GOWER COLLEGE SWANSEA MUSIC Table of Contents Romantic Era Introduction (1830 – 1910) ............................................. 4 Programme Music ........................................................................................ 5 Concert Overture .............................................................................................. 5 Programme Symphony ....................................................................................... 6 Symphonic Poem ................................................................................................. 9 Romantic Piano Music ............................................................................... 11 Lieder and Song-cycles .............................................................................. 12 Opera and Music Dramas ......................................................................... 15 Italian Opera ..................................................................................................... 15 Music Dramas ................................................................................................... 16 Leitmotifs in The Ring ..................................................................................... 17 GOWER COLLEGE SWANSEA 3 MUSIC History of Music The History of Music can be broadly divided into separate periods of time, each with its own characteristics or musical styles. Musical style does not, of course, change overnight. It can often be a gradual process