Very CPE Bach, ABA: a sentimentality melody comprises the A section and an emotional outburst of recitative, the B. There is also a curious rangy piano interlude between sections. The original manuscript, discovered in 1911, was destroyed when someone, set off an incendiary device in the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn in 1960. Glauert (in the Cambridge companion to Beethoven) suggests that the melody strains against the vocal line - I would agree with this, I found it uncommonly difficult to work through.
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Showing posts with label Tenor and Piano. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Song in G major: "An Laura"; "Freud’ umblühe dich auf allen Wegen" (c. 1790)
Biamonti 27, WoO 112, Hess 128
Very CPE Bach, ABA: a sentimentality melody comprises the A section and an emotional outburst of recitative, the B. There is also a curious rangy piano interlude between sections. The original manuscript, discovered in 1911, was destroyed when someone, set off an incendiary device in the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn in 1960. Glauert (in the Cambridge companion to Beethoven) suggests that the melody strains against the vocal line - I would agree with this, I found it uncommonly difficult to work through.
Very CPE Bach, ABA: a sentimentality melody comprises the A section and an emotional outburst of recitative, the B. There is also a curious rangy piano interlude between sections. The original manuscript, discovered in 1911, was destroyed when someone, set off an incendiary device in the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn in 1960. Glauert (in the Cambridge companion to Beethoven) suggests that the melody strains against the vocal line - I would agree with this, I found it uncommonly difficult to work through.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Song in E major: "Klage"; "Dein Silver schien durch Eichengrün" (1790)
Biamonti 23, WoO 113
A ballad-y song awash in sentimentality, it has a sound close to what we would expect from Schubert. Beginning in E major and ending in e minor, its B section is over a palpitating accompaniment. Rangy and oddly intriguing.
A ballad-y song awash in sentimentality, it has a sound close to what we would expect from Schubert. Beginning in E major and ending in e minor, its B section is over a palpitating accompaniment. Rangy and oddly intriguing.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Song: "Der Arme Componist" (The Poor Composer) (1788)
Biamonti 15
A rage aria over the difficulties of composing, found in the margin of a Bonn miscellany which also includes Biamonti 16. "Each note costs me twenty sweat drops"
The good folk at Unheard Beethoven have created a midi version of the song.
A rage aria over the difficulties of composing, found in the margin of a Bonn miscellany which also includes Biamonti 16. "Each note costs me twenty sweat drops"
The good folk at Unheard Beethoven have created a midi version of the song.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Song: "Schilderung eines Mädchens"; "Schildern, willst du Freund, soll ich dir
Biamonti 7; WoO 107
A strange little tune that almost seems a sketch for something else, all of 20 measures in a seemingly hybrid form, that amazingly, perhaps as a result of this brevity, still manages to sound so well put together. A dramatic moment at the rapid jarring diminished B is followed by an ending that seems new, yet has a closing function. Apparently it originally appeared in 1783 in Boßler's weekly musical magazine Blumenlese für Klavierliebhaber. Lockwood calls it "derivative."
A strange little tune that almost seems a sketch for something else, all of 20 measures in a seemingly hybrid form, that amazingly, perhaps as a result of this brevity, still manages to sound so well put together. A dramatic moment at the rapid jarring diminished B is followed by an ending that seems new, yet has a closing function. Apparently it originally appeared in 1783 in Boßler's weekly musical magazine Blumenlese für Klavierliebhaber. Lockwood calls it "derivative."
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