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Gurrelieder

Work by Arnold Schoenberg for five soloists, speaker, four choruses, and large orchestra, including iron chains (the text is a German translation of the Danish poems by J P Jacobsen). It was composed 1900–11 and first performed in Vienna, Austria, on 23 February 1913, conducted by Franz Schreker. Its first US performance was in Philadelphia on 8 April 1932, conducted by Leopold Stokowski.



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Scenes and Arias is a huge piece with its roots in late romanticism: Richard Strauss, the Schoenberg of Gurrelieder, with a dash of Benjamin Britten, perhaps.
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Though the work remains rooted in late 19th-century romanticism, a number of the composers whom Pfitzner had condemned are echoed in aspects of the cantata, including Mahler and Debussy and even Schoenberg, whose Gurrelieder could have been the formal model for Von Deutscher Seele's sequence of vocal settings articulated by tumultuous orchestral interludes.
 
 
 
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