Six Bierbaum Songs
Full title | Six Songs on poems by Otto Julius Bierbaum for voice and piano / Sechs Lieder von Otto Julius Bierbaum für eine hohe Singstimme | |
Date composed | 1904–1905 | |
Details |
1. Zuversicht in Pan / Faith in Pan; vocal range: g#'–ab'' 2. Der Vogel / The Bird; vocal range: b'–g#'' 3. Das Wunder am Baume / The Wonder of the Tree; vocal range: g'–g#'' 4. Die schwarze Laute / The Black Lute; vocal range: db'–a'' 5. Letzte Bitte / Last Request; vocal range: db'–ab'' 6. Maikaterlied / Tom Cat's Song in May); vocal range: g'–g'' Composed 1904–1905 (see song completion dates below). Texts by Otto Julius Bierbaum; translated into English by Vally Weigl and Lydia Perera. |
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Manuscript sources | NYPL JOB 73-105, working holograph score, with a completion date for several songs in the set—for Zuversicht in Pan: 9./IV; for Der Vogel and Das Wunder (originally intended as a separate work entitled Zwei Lieder): März 1904; for Die schwarze Laute: 19./VIII. 1905; for Letzte Bitte: 24./VIII. 1905; and for Maikaterlied (here titled Neukaterlied): 28./VIII. 1905. This holograph also includes an uncompleted setting of Paul Heyse's Der Tag wird kühl. | |
Publication details | Not published in composer's lifetime. Today publisher of record is ACA. | |
Availabiity | Score available from ACA and KWF. | |
Recordings |
19 October 1974 | New York, Donnell Library, Austrian Institute and Bruckner Society of America, Mahler—Weigl Program: Julia Lovett, soprano; Nancy Garniez, piano (Nos. 1, 3, and 6). |