Song cycles (Killmayer)
| Song cycles |
| by Wilhelm Killmayer
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| Period |
contemporary |
| Composed |
1953–2008 |
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Rêveries (1953)
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Romanzen (1954)
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Drei Gesänge nach Hölderlin (1965)
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Tre Canti di Leopardi (1965)
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Blasons anatomiques ... (1968)
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Französisches Liederbuch (1979)
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Hölderlin-Lieder (1982)
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Neun Lieder nach Gedichten von Peter Härtling (1993)
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Trakl-Lieder (1993)
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Huit Poésies de Mallarmé (1993)
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Sappho-Lieder (1993)
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Heine-Lieder (1994)
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... wie in Welschland lau und blau ... (1995)
- ... was dem Herzen kaum bewusst ...
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Schweigen und Kindheit (1996)
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Mörike-Lieder} (2003)
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| Rêveries |
| Text |
French poems |
| Performed |
30 July 1953 (1953-07-30)
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| Duration |
13 min |
| Movements |
five |
| Scoring |
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| Romanzen |
| Text |
poems by Federico García Lorca
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| Performed |
25 April 1955 (1955-04-25)
|
| Duration |
15 min |
| Movements |
five |
| Scoring |
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| Blasons anatomiques du corps féminin |
| Text |
poems by Federico García Lorca
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| Performed |
6 July 1969 (1969-07-06)
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| Duration |
15 min |
| Movements |
six |
| Scoring |
- soprano
- clarinet
- violin
- cello
- piano
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| Drei Gesänge nach Hölderlin |
| Based on |
poems by Hölderlin |
| Performed |
23 April 1968 (1968-04-23)
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| Duration |
8 min |
| Movements |
three |
| Scoring |
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|
Hölderlin-Lieder (1 · 2) |
| nach Gedichten aus der Spätzeit |
| Text |
late poems by Hölderlin |
| Language |
German |
| Composed |
1982 (1982)-85 · 1983–87 |
| Performed |
23 February 1986 (1986-02-23)
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| Duration |
40 min · 45 min |
| Movements |
19 · 18 |
| Scoring |
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|
Hölderlin-Lieder (3) |
| Composed |
1983 (1983)-1992 |
| Performed |
22 November 1991 (1991-11-22)
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| Duration |
21 min |
| Movements |
seven |
| Scoring |
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| Neun Lieder nach Gedichten von Peter Härtling |
| Text |
poems by Peter Härtling
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| Language |
German |
| Composed |
1993 (1993)
|
| Performed |
1 December 1998 (1998-12-01)
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| Duration |
21 min |
| Movements |
eight |
| Scoring |
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| Trakl-Lieder |
| Text |
poems by Georg Trakl
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| Language |
German |
| Composed |
1993 (1993)
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| Performed |
1 December 1998 (1998-12-01)
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| Duration |
21 min |
| Movements |
eight |
| Scoring |
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| Sappho-Lieder |
| Text |
poems by Sappho
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| Language |
German |
| Composed |
1993 (1993)-2008 |
| Performed |
31 March 2008 (2008-03-31)
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| Duration |
30 min |
| Movements |
15 |
| Scoring |
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Wilhelm Killmayer, a German composer, wrote several song cycles, which form a substantial part of his compositions. The earliest cycle dates from 1953, the last was completed in 2008. He set poems by German romantic writers such as Friedrich Hölderlin and Joseph von Eichendorff, but was also inspired by French, Greek and Spanish poems, and by texts from the 20th-century poets Georg Trakl and Peter Härtling. He used mostly piano to accompany a singer, but also added percussion or other instruments, and scored some cycles in a version for voice and orchestra. His Hölderlin-Lieder, setting poems from the author's late period, were performed at major festivals and recorded.
Interested in poetry and the voice, Killmayer composed more than 200 Lieder, including several song cycles. Most of them are set for voice and piano. Many songs set poems from German romantic poetry, such as others on 20th-century poems. Killmayer wrote four cycles of Hölderlin-Lieder based on poems by Friedrich Hölderlin, especially from his late period, two cycles based on Georg Trakl (1993 and 1996), and one based on Peter Härtling (1993).
Killmayer was first inspired by texts of French authors of the Renaissance, such as Charles d'Orléans, Mal Mariée and Clément Marot (1953), and by poems of Federico García Lorca in German (1954), which he set for soprano, piano, ensemble or percussion. From the 1990s, he composed cycles on poems by Stéphane Mallarmé and Sappho. Returning to German romanticism he set two song cycles based on poems by Joseph von Eichendorff for men's chorus, a songbook inspired by Heinrich Heine, a cycle based on poems and Eduard Mörike. His song cycles, as his other works, were published by Schott.
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