Walter Arlen: Es geht wohl anders (for soprano and piano)

for soprano and piano
Es geht wohl anders... (2.5 minutes, 1936)
composed by Walter Arlen, on text by
Josef von Eichendorff (translation by Exilarte)

Composer note
Es geht wohl anders was written in April, 1938 to a poem in German by Josef von Eichendorff [1788-1857], in Vienna, while still living in our apartment above the family department store. When I wrote the music for this song, my father was imprisoned in the Karajangasse [Nazi prison in a school building. Inmates were usually transported on to Dachau]; my mother, after a nervous breakdown, was under suicide watch in the mental hospital, ‘Heilanstalt Helia.’ How prophetic Eichendorff’s words were.

— Walter Arlen

About the Exilarte Edition
Schirmer/Wise Music’s Exilarte Edition exclusively publishes works by composers who were persecuted, forced into exile or murdered by the Nazi regime. Nearly all original manuscripts of these works are archived in the Exilarte Center at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in Austria.