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Hölderlin-Gesänge, Op. 35

Composer
Kurtág György
Original / Hungarian title
Hölderlin-Gesänge, Op. 35
Foreign language / English title
Hölderlin-Gesänge, Op. 35
Subtitle
For baritone solo (and instruments), to poems and fragments by Friedrich Hölderlin, in German
Dedication
Book One:
No. 1. to D. E. Sattler; No. 2. to Georg Kröll; No. 3. to Alexander Polzin; No. 4. to Reinhart Meyer-Kalkus; No. 5. to Heinz Holliger; No. 6. to the memory of Robert Klein

Book Two:
[No. 7] to György Ligeti; [No. 8] to Adrienne Csengery; [No. 9] to Rolf Hans; [No. 10] to Vera Ligeti; [No. 11] to Roland Moser; [No. 12] to Friedrich Cerha; [No. 13] to Jan van Vlijmen; [No. 14] to Kurt Widmer; [No. 15] to Karl-Heinrich Müller
Year of composition
1997
Type
Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s)
Number of players
3
Instrumentation
Bar. solo - trb., tuba
Movements, parts
Book One:
1. An "
2. Im Walde
3. Gestalt und Geist (with trombone and tuba)
4. An Zimmern
5. Der Spaziergang
6. Paul Celan: Tübingen, Jänner

Book Two (in progress, songs in chronological order):
[7.] Hälfte des Lebens (also in version for three baritones)
[8.] und wenig wissen...
[9.] Zwei Fragmente: (Süss ist´s; und der Himmel...)
[10.] Das Angenehme dieser Welt...
[11.] Nun versteh´ ich
[12.] Brief an die Mutter
[13.] Sehnsucht und Wünschen (Two fragments from Mnemosyne III, and from Der Rhein
[14.] Nicht alle Tage...
[15.] Griechenland…
Text
HÖLDERLIN, Friedrich
Language
German
Premiere information
28 October 1999, György Kurtág´s Composer´s Evening, Inaugural Concert, Congress Hall, MTA (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Budapest; Kurt Widmer (Bar.) (Hungarian premiere)
Publisher / Source
Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest © 2013, Z. 14463 (Book I only)
Available here!
Recordings
ECM New Series CD ECM 1730, 2003 - Kurt Widmer (Bar.), Heinrich Huber (trb.), David LeClair (tuba)
Remarks, other info
Work in progress (Book I composed: 1993-1997)