7 Early Songs
for Voice and Orchestra – Urtext
[vce,orch] duration: 16' solo: vce – 2(picc).2(cor ang).2.Bb-clar.2.dble bsn – 4.1.2.0 – timp.perc – hp – cel – str
Description
Written early, orchestrated late
The cycle Seven Early Songs on texts by Lenau, Rilke, Storm and other poets was put together in 1928, more than 20 years after the composition of the individual songs. From the large amount of songs for voice and piano that he had written in his early years, Alban Berg selected seven of them which he then orchestrated. After serious consideration, he laid down a definitive sequence in which the tempo constantly alternates while the orchestral instruments symmetrically recede before picking up again. Once the piano and orchestral editions were printed, the Seven Early Songs quickly conquered concert halls in both scorings. They are still at home on the concert stages of the world today which is reason enough to present this work by Alban Berg in an Urtext edition following the Violin Concerto. The orchestral material can now be purchased for the first time.
EB 8838
Edition for vce,pno
EAN: 9790004184028
32 pages / 23 x 30.5 cm / 153 g / stapled
PB 5534
score
EAN: 9790004212639
60 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 270 g / stapled
PB 5534D
score
EAN: 9790004820278
61 pages / 25 x 32 cm / digital edition
PB 5567
study score
EAN: 9790004213773
60 pages / 16.5 x 22.5 cm / 130 g / stapled
OB 5534-15
violin 1
EAN: 9790004341766
8 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 52 g / stapled
OB 5534-16
violin 2
EAN: 9790004341773
8 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 52 g / stapled
OB 5534-19
viola
EAN: 9790004341780
8 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 51 g / stapled
OB 5534-23
violoncello
EAN: 9790004341797
8 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 51 g / stapled
OB 5534-27
double bass
EAN: 9790004341803
4 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 36 g / stapled
OB 5534-30
wind parts
EAN: 9790004341810
78 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 354 g / folder
Description
Description
Written early, orchestrated late
The cycle Seven Early Songs on texts by Lenau, Rilke, Storm and other poets was put together in 1928, more than 20 years after the composition of the individual songs. From the large amount of songs for voice and piano that he had written in his early years, Alban Berg selected seven of them which he then orchestrated. After serious consideration, he laid down a definitive sequence in which the tempo constantly alternates while the orchestral instruments symmetrically recede before picking up again. Once the piano and orchestral editions were printed, the Seven Early Songs quickly conquered concert halls in both scorings. They are still at home on the concert stages of the world today which is reason enough to present this work by Alban Berg in an Urtext edition following the Violin Concerto. The orchestral material can now be purchased for the first time.
Table of contents
| 1. | Nacht | (Carl Hauptmann) |
| 2. | Schilflied | (Nikolaus Lenau) |
| 3. | Die Nachtigall | (Theodor Storm) |
| 4. | Traumgekroent | (Rainer Maria Rilke) |
| 5. | Im Zimmer | (Johannes Schlaf) |
| 6. | Liebesode | (Otto Erich Hartleben) |
| 7. | Sommertage | (Paul Hohenberg) |