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"Sei mein!" was written and composed by Peter Cornelius in 1865 for his future wife Bertha Jung. The composer set the poem in short rhyming lines using the scheme aaabcccb, recounting with loving humor what his beloved means to him.
This art song was originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted it to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing the any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French melodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist.
The songs have been recorded by the figure humaine chamber choir on the CD "Kennst du das Land ..." (Carus 83.495).
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Composer
Peter Cornelius
| 1824-1874Peter Cornelius, geb. 1824 in Mainz, gest. 1874 ebenda. Sohn eines Schauspielerehepaars. Ergriff zuerst ebenfalls diesen Beruf, studierte dann aber von 1844 bis 1846 Kontrapunkt bei S. Dehn in Berlin. Seine Kirchenmusik stammt hauptsächlich aus dieser Zeit und aus den Jahren nach 1852, als er zu F. Liszt nach Weimar ging; dieser förderte sein Schaffen als Kirchenkomponist. Cornelius wurde einer der wichtigsten Vorkämpfer der neudeutschen Schule. Er folgte Wagner 1865 nach München, wo er ab 1867 als Kompositonslehrer an der neugegründeten Kgl. Musikschule wirkte. Heute sind besonders seine Oper "Der Babier von Bagdad" (1858) und seine "Weihnachtslieder" op. 8 bekannt. Personal details
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Songwriter / Librettist
Peter Cornelius
| 1824-1874Peter Cornelius, geb. 1824 in Mainz, gest. 1874 ebenda. Sohn eines Schauspielerehepaars. Ergriff zuerst ebenfalls diesen Beruf, studierte dann aber von 1844 bis 1846 Kontrapunkt bei S. Dehn in Berlin. Seine Kirchenmusik stammt hauptsächlich aus dieser Zeit und aus den Jahren nach 1852, als er zu F. Liszt nach Weimar ging; dieser förderte sein Schaffen als Kirchenkomponist. Cornelius wurde einer der wichtigsten Vorkämpfer der neudeutschen Schule. Er folgte Wagner 1865 nach München, wo er ab 1867 als Kompositonslehrer an der neugegründeten Kgl. Musikschule wirkte. Heute sind besonders seine Oper "Der Babier von Bagdad" (1858) und seine "Weihnachtslieder" op. 8 bekannt. Personal details
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Arranger
Denis Rouger
| 1961Denis Rouger grew up as the son of a family of musicians in Paris, where he learned trumpet, horn, piano and singing. He studied composition at the CNSM (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique), obtaining first prizes in harmony, fugue and counterpoint. He studied choral conducting in France and Holland at the Kurt Thomas Academy and received the Certificat d’Aptitude for vocal ensembles from the Ministry of Culture.
As “Professeur agrégé” at the University of Paris-Sorbonne he conducted the “Choeur de Paris-Sorbonne” and taught choral conducting for twenty years. From 1993 to 2003, he was choirmaster at Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral and from 2005 to 2006 at the Madeleine Church, where he received the title of “Honorary Music Director.”
He has conducted numerous professional and amateur ensembles, among others in Germany – where he was invited as a guest conductor by the Landesjugendchor Baden-Württemberg and the Balthasar Neumann Chor, as well as by radio choirs in Hamburg (NDR) and Stuttgart (SWR) –, Italy, Holland, Canada, the United Arab Emirates and Switzerland (Lucerne Festival). He has also collaborated in several world premieres of contemporary works by Klaus Huber, N’guyen Thien Dao, Philippe Mazé and Yves Castagnet, among others. Denis Rouger gives master classes in choral conducting in Sweden, Bulgaria, France, Germany and Switzerland.
In April 2011, Denis Rouger was appointed Professor of Choral Conducting at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart. The Chamber Choir of the Musikhochschule, which he founded in autumn 2011, won first prize at the International Choir Competition in Mosbach (Germany) in 2014. In collaboration with Carus the choral book French Choral Music has been published as well as the debut CD of the figure humaine kammerchor, founded in 2016 by Denis Rouger.
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