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ComposerWalter Arlen
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PublisherG Schirmer Inc
Description
Also available as Digital Device Download (not printable): GSP79601DGT
Three Songs from Le Tombeau de Gabriel Fauré (1951)
composed by Walter Arlen, on Sonnets to Orpheus by
Rainer Maria Rilke (translation by Jessie Lemont)
For voice and piano
These three songs with texts by Rainer Maria Rilke were composed by Walter Arlen in 1951 as an homage to Gabriel Fauré. Arlen grew up in Vienna in the 1930s, where mainly German-language songs and operettas were performed, as well as music from the Second Viennese School. International composers received little attention. It was only in exile that Arlen was inspired by the sounds of Debussy, Stravinsky, Sibelius and others. Out of gratitude to the country to which he immigrated, he used an English translation of the original German poems.
Songs
I. Where, in What Blessedly Watered Gardens
II. See the Flowers, True to Earth that Sent Them Hither
III. Sing the Gardens, My Heart
In songs I and III, music by Fauré is freely quoted.
About the Exilarte Edition
G. Schirmer/Wise Music’s Exilarte Edition exclusively publishes works by composers who were persecuted, forced into exile, or murdered by the Nazi regime. All original manuscripts of these works are archived in the Exilarte Center at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in Austria.