Trösterin Musik, WAB 88
| Nachruf | |
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| Secular choral work by Anton Bruckner | |
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| Key | C minor |
| Catalogue | WAB 81 |
| Text | Heinrich von der Mattig |
| Language | German |
| Composed | 19 October 1877: Vienna |
| Dedication | In memory of Joseph Seiberl |
| Published | 1911: Vienna |
| Vocal | TTBB choir |
| Instrumental | Organ |
Nachruf ("Obituary"), WAB 81, is a song composed by Anton Bruckner in 1877 in memory of Joseph Seiberl. The song is better known as its 1886 reissue as Trösterin Musik ("Music, the Comforter"), WAB 88.
Bruckner composed the song on a text of Heinrich von der Mattig on 19 October 1877 in memory of his friend Joseph Seiberl, who died on 10 June 1877. The piece was performed nine days later by the Liedertafel Sängerbund in the St. Florian Abbey. The work, of which the original manuscript is stored in the Library of Congress in Washington, was first issued in Band XXIII/2, No. 28a of the Gesamtausgabe.
In 1886 Rudolf Weinwurm asked August Seuffert, editor of the Wiener Zeitung, to write another text to fit to Bruckner's Nachruf. Weinwurm performed the revised setting as Trösterin Musik with the Wiener Akademischer Gesangverein in the Musikvereinsaal on 11 April 1886. The original manuscript is lost. A copy of it is stored in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. The revised setting, which was first edited by Viktor Keldorfer (Universal Edition) in 1911, is put in Band XXIII/2, No. 28b of the Gesamtausgabe.
Nachruf uses a text by Heinrich von der Mattig.
Vereint bist, Töneheld und Meister,
Mit jener hohen Schar der Geister,
Die hier schon höh'res Dasein führen,
Weil sie der Tonwelt Geist erspüren.
Du hast aus buntem Tongewühle
Gar oft in freiem Orgelspiele
Mit Kunst gelenkt die Melodien
Zu andachtsvollen Harmonien.
Drum mag's im Orgelstrome brausen
Und heut in Sturmakkorden sausen:
Vergessen bleibst du nie hiernieden;
Du gabst uns Kunst, nun ruh' in Frieden!
You joined, hero and master of sounds,
This grand cohort of spirits,
Who here already ran a higher existence,
Because they sensed the spirit of the world of sounds.
You have from a chequered chaos of sound
Quite often in free organ play
Driven artfully the melodies
To devout harmonies.
Therefore may it roar in the organ's stream
And whiz today in stormy chords:
You will never be forgotten here on earth:
You gave us art, now rest in peace!
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