Two Early Songs. Vocal transcriptions by Clytus Gottwald
For almost 30 years the conductor and musicologist Clytus Gottwald made transcriptions of songs and instrumental pieces for unaccompanied choir by a wide variety of different composers. They are performed throughout the world with huge success.
Richard Strauss left a wealth of wonderfully sensitive and subtle songs from all decades of his compositional output, many of them written specifically for his wife, the singer Pauline Strauss-de Ahna
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text (without music) for download, html file, Singing text, originalhtml file, Singing text, original (Sample)Unbenanntes Dokument ZueignungJa, du weißt es, teure Seele,
dass ich fern von dir mich quäle,
Liebe macht die Herzen krank,
habe Dank.Einst hielt ich, der Freiheit Zecher,
hoch den Amethystenbecher,
und du segnetest den Trank,
habe Dank.Und beschworst darin die Bösen,
bis ich, was ich nie gewesen,
heilig ans Herz dir sank,
habe Dank....
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text (without music) for download, html file, Singing text, english translationhtml file, Singing text, english translation (Sample)Unbenanntes Dokument Dedication
Yes, you know it, precious soul,
how I suffer, faraway from you,
love sickens hearts,
give thanks.Once did I, the drinker of freedom,
raise high my amethyst cup,
and you blessed the drink,
give thanks.And you conjured up the evil within it,
till I, as I had never been before,
sank, blessed upon your heart,
give thanks....
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text (without music) for download, html file, Singing text, French translationhtml file, Singing text, French translation (Sample)Unbenanntes Dokument Dédicace
Oui, tu le sais, chère âme,
Être loin de toi me torture,
L’amour rend les coeurs malades,
Merci à toi.Assoiffé de liberté,
Je levai alors la coupe d’améthyste,
Et tu en bénis le breuvage,
Merci à toi.Et tu y conjuras les démons,
Jusqu’à ce que je me répandisse en ton coeur,
Pur comme je ne l’avais jamais été,
Merci à toi....
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Composer
Richard Strauss
| 1864-1949Bereits mit sechs Jahren beginnt der Sohn des Musikers Franz Joseph Strauss und dessen Frau Josephine mit dem Komponieren, bis zu seinem 18. Geburtstag liegen bereits etwa 140 Stücke, darunter knapp 60 Lieder und über 40 Klavierwerke, vor. 1881 beginnt dann seine steile Karriere mit seinem opus 1, dem Festmarsch für großes Orchester. 1886 tritt Strauss in seiner Heimatstadt München eine Stelle als dritter Kapellmeister an der Hofoper an. Dort hatte er Zeit, sein Repertoire zu vertiefen. In den folgenden vier Jahren entstehen u.a. zahlreiche Lieder, wie das Ständchen op. 17,2, das zusammen mit Von dunklem Schleier umsponnen op. 17,4 und Nicht im Schlafe hab ich das geträumt op. 48,1 beim Carus-Verlag erschien. 1905 und viele Liedkompositionen später, schreibt der bereits gefeierte Richard Strauss auch mit einer Oper Erfolgsgeschichte. Die Opern-Adaption von Oscar Wilds Salome, deren Text Strauss selbst ins Deutsche übersetzte, gilt bei seinen Anhängern als Inbegriff moderner Opernmusik. Personal details
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Clytus Gottwald
| 1925-2023The choral conductor, composer and musicologist Clytus Gottwald (1925 - 2023) made significant contributions to contemporary choral music. As editor for New Music at Südfunk Stuttgart and founder and director of the Schola Cantorum Stuttgart, he was in productive exchange with his contemporaries, Pierre Boulez, Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti, Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen and many others. With his Schola Cantorum, a 16-voice chamber vocal ensemble, Gottwald decisively shaped the a cappella choral culture of the highest technical level that is taken for granted today. Clytus Gottwald's transcriptions of piano songs and instrumental pieces for unaccompanied choir are appreciated by choirs all over the world. Modelled on the style of Ligeti, his works set the highest of musical standards. Clytus Gottwald has received several awards for his services, including the Cultural Prize of Baden-Württemberg in 2009, the European Church Music Prize in 2012, and the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2014. His importance for the development of contemporary choral music cannot be overestimated. Personal details
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