Five Songs op. 10
Full title | Five Songs for contralto or mezzo-soprano and piano op. 10 / Fünf Lieder für eine tiefere Frauenstimme op. 10 | |
Date composed | 1907 | |
Details |
1. Märchen / Dreams (Hermann Runge; translated into English by Vally Weigl); vocal range: ab–d'' 2. Jesus (Peter Baum; translated into English by Lydia Perera and Vally Weigl); vocal range: bb–g#''; also available in a version for a lower register 3. Der toten Mutter / To My Dead Mother (Paul Grotowsky; translated into English by Lydia Perera and Vally Weigl); vocal range: b–g#'' 4. Fremd geh' ich unter den Fremden / Lonely I walk among strangers (Walter Calè; translated into English by Vally Weigl); vocal range: g#–g'' 5. O Nacht, du silberbleiche / Oh night, thou silvery pale one (Hermann Hesse; translated into English by Lydia Perera and Vally Weigl); vocal range: a#–e#'' Composed in 1907, according to composer's holograph works list of 1938. |
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Manuscript sources | NYPL JOB 73-118, holograph score. See also ÖNB Mus.Hs.36832. | |
Publication details | Edition Strache, 1920 [?]: Strache No. 32 E. St. 227–E. St. 231 (performance score and part). Today publisher of record is ACA. | |
Availabiity | Score available from ACA and KWF. | |
Recordings | No. 5, O Nacht, du Silberbleiche: William Warfield and David Garvey (LP: Orion ORS 81407, 1973). | |
Listen |
Five Songs op. 10: no. 5, O Nacht, Du Silberbleiche / Night, thou silvery pale one |
21 February 1908*** | Vienna, Ansorge Verein, Liederabend Mahler—Zemlinsky—Schönberg—Weigl: Helene Oberländer, mezzo-soprano; Alexander von Zemlinsky, piano. |
January 1913 | Vienna, Bösendorfer-Saal: Margarete Bum, soprano; unidentified pianist. |
26 February 1913 | Vienna, Saal der Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft, Liederabend Karl Weigl; Margarete Bum, soprano; Karl Weigl, piano (nos. 2, 3, and 4). |
11 January 1914 | Vienna, Konzerthaus, Schubert Saal: Frieda Neuhauser, soprano; Anny Nikel, piano (nos. 1, 2, and 5). |
28 March 1914 | Vienna, Konzerthaus, Schubert Saal: Emmy Heim, alto; Vaclav Stepan, piano. |
1 April 1925 | Vienna, Kleiner Konzerthaussaal, Kompositions-Abend Karl Weigl: Emilie Bittner, soprano; Karl Weigl, piano (nos. 3 and 4). |
16 November 1931 | Vienna, private musicale, Zur Weihe des Hauses Schmitz [Fritzi Schmitz]: Maria Weigl [or Grete Schneider?], soprano; Karl Weigl, piano. |
26 January 1932 | Vienna, Neuer Frauenklub, Liederabend moderner österreichischer Komponisten: Otti Hey, singer; Karl Weigl, piano (nos. 3 and 5). Also on program: works by works by Franz Mittler; Fritz E. Pamer; Joseph Marx; Alban Berg; Ernst Krenek. |
8 November 1934 | Vienna, Musikverein, Kleiner Saal, Liederabend Elsa Weigl-Pazeller: Elsa Weigl-Pazeller, soprano; Otto Janowitz, piano (nos. 1 and 2). Also on program: songs by Walter Klein, Walter Bricht, Hugo Kauder, Hugo Wolf. |
21 April 1937 | Vienna: Gerda Redlich, alto; unidentified pianist. |
21 April 1937 | Brno, radio concert and broadcast: Gerda Redlich, alto; unidentified, piano. Also on program: Erich Zeisl, Passacaglia für großes Orchester; and works by Friedrich Wildgans and Julius Bittner. |
7 April 1945 | New York, Brooklyn Museum, Ask The Composer, Outstanding Contemporary Composers and Their Music—Karl Weigl: Five Songs for soprano and piano, op. 23, with Sally Cherry Pestcoe, soprano, and Karl Weigl, piano. Also on the program: Pictures and Tales op. 2 for piano duet, with Karl Weigl and Vally Weigl, piano; Adagio from Violin Sonata No. 1 op. 16, “The Singing Bird’s Song Before Night,” with Boris Schwarz, violin, and Karl Weigl, piano; Five Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano, with Alice Howland, soprano, and Karl Weigl, piano; Two Pieces for violoncello and piano op. 33, with James Scholz, cello, and Karl Weigl, piano. |
3 May 1945 | unidentified venue: Maria Pos-Carloforti, alto; Karl Weigl, piano (3 nos.). |
3 May 1945 | New York: Maria Pos-Carloforti, alto; Karl Weigl, piano. |
20 April 1959 | New York, Mannes College of Music, Karl Weigl Memorial Concert: Georgia Davis, contralto; Richard Woitach, piano. |
29 October 1973 | New York, Donnell Library: Helen Phillips, mezzo-soprano; Vally Weigl [?], piano. |
2 June 1981 | Spoleto, Washington: Piccolo Spoleto, All-Weigl Program: unidentified soprano; Max Lifchit, piano. |
3 October 1981 | New York, Carnegie Recital Hall, Mahler-Weigl Anniversary Program: Beth Schwartz, mezzo-soprano; unidentified pianist. |
5 October 1999 | Budapest, Benczúr Ház, The Music of Karl Weigl Memorial Concerts, concert 2: Seven Songs op. 1 (Michael Kutner and Bárkányi Eva); Five Songs op. 10 nos. 2 and 3 and Six Songs for mezzo-soprano no. 5 (Evelyn Chih-Yih Chan and Bárkányi Eva); Viola Sonata (Garth Knox and Stephan Ginsburgh); Five Songs for soprano and string quartet (Evelyn Chih-Yih Chan and Akadémia Quartet [Környei Zsófia, Bodó Antónia, Móré László, Maróth Bálint]). |