Five Duets for soprano and baritone

Full title	Five Duets for soprano and baritone, with piano / Fünf Duette für Sopran und Bariton, mit Klavier
Date composed	1909
Details	1. Abendstunde / Evening Hour (Walter Calè); vocal range: g'–f'' and d–d' 2. Der Wanderer und das Blumenmädchen / The Wanderer and the Flower Girl (E. A. Herrmann); vocal range: e'–g'' and c–d'; also available in a version for a lower register 3. Hymne / Hymn (Philodemos); vocal range: e'–ab'' and eb–f#'' 4. In goldener Fülle / In Golden Abundance (Paul Reiner); vocal range: d'–gb'' and d–f' 5. Ehestand der Freude / Wedding Joys (Wunderhorn); vocal range: f#'–g'' and d–f Composed 1909. Texts translated into English by Vally Weigl.
Manuscript sources	NYPL JPB 99-7 no. 7, reproduction of holograph score (Composers Facsimile Edition, 17 pages), with holograph note at end, in parentheses: Written in 1909. See also NYPL JPB 78-23, reproduction of a copyist's manuscript score.
Publication details	Not published in composer's lifetime. Today publisher of record is ACA.
Availabiity	Performance score available from ACA and KWF.
Recordings
Listen	Five Duets for soprano and baritone: no. 5, Ehestand der Freude / Wedding Joys Evelyn Chih-Yih Chan, Michael Kutner, and Bárkányi Éva Five Duets for soprano and baritone: no. 1, Abendstunde / Evening Hour Lucy Shelton, George Shirley, and David Garvey Five Duets for soprano and baritone: no. 2, Der Wanderer und das Blumenmädchenn / The Wanderer and the Flower Girl Sophie Klussman, Sebastian Noack, Oliver Triendl Five Duets for soprano and baritone: no. 4, In goldener Fülle / In Golden Abundance Sophie Klussman, Sebastian Noack, Oliver Triendl

Performances (click icon to expand or collapse list)

21 February 1908***	Vienna, Ansorge Verein, Liederabend Mahler—Zemlinsky—Schönberg—Weigl: Helene Oberländer, soprano; Paul Schmedes, baritone; Alexander von Zemlinsky, piano (nos. 2, 3, and 4).
26 February 1913	Vienna, Saal der Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft, Liederabend Karl Weigl: Margarete Bum, soprano; A.J. Boruttau, baritone; Karl Weigl, piano (nos. 3, 4, and 5).
April 1937	Brno, radio concert and broadcast: Gerda Redlich, alto; Staeren, baritone; unidentified, piano. Also on program: Erich Zeisl, Passacaglia für großes Orchester; and works by Friedrich Wildgans and Julius Bittner.
11 February 1951	New York, Brooklyn Museum Concerts and WNYC radio broadcast, Karl Weigl Memorial Program: Barbara Troxell, soprano; William Gephart, baritone; Hedda Ballon, piano (nos. 1, 2, and 4).
28 October 1959	New York, Donnell Library, Austrian Institute: Wolf—Mahler—Weigl: Jeanette Scovotti, soprano; Robert Paul, baritone; Vally Weigl, piano. Also on program: Hugo Wolf, Italian Serenade and songs; Gustav Mahler, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, with Ethel Erdos, mezzo-soprano.
28 October 1959	New York, Donnell Library; Austrian Institute, Wolf—Mahler—Weigl: Jeanette Scovotti, soprano; Robert Paul, baritone; Richard Woitach, piano.
1 November 1959	New York, Brooklyn Museum and simultaneous WNYC radio broadcast: Karl Weigl Memorial Program (Commemorating the Tenth Anniversary of His Death): Jeanette Scovotti, soprano; David Manning, baritone; Vally Weigl, piano.
29 January 1966	New York, The Brooklyn Museum Concert Series and WNYC radio broadcast, Karl Weigl Memorial Program: Arthur Thompson, baritone; Esther Hinds, soprano; Vally Weigl, piano.
9 February 1966	New York, Austrian Forum: Arthur Thompson, baritone; Esther Hinds, soprano; Vally Weigl, piano. Also on program: Otto Jokl, songs. Gustav Mahler, songs.
11 September 1966	New York, Brooklyn Museum Concerts and simultaneous WNYC radio broadcast, Karl Weigl Memorial Program: Esther Hinds, soprano; Arthur Thompson, baritone; Vally Weigl, piano.
December 1967	New York, Town Hall: unidentified performers.
8 January 1970	New York, Liederkranz Concert Hall, Third Musicale: Amalia Catalani, soprano [or Lucille Perret]; Eugene Green, baritone; and Takejiro Hirai, Zita Carno, Vally Weigl, Stanley Sonntag, piano.
6 February 1971	New York, Austrian Institute, Wolf—Mahler—Weigl, subsequently broadcast on New York’s WNYC radio, The Music of Karl Weigl: introductory remarks by Irene Harand; Judith Hubbel, soprano; Eugene Green, baritone; Vally Weigl and Zita Carno, piano.
29 October 1973	New York, Donnell Library, Mahler—Weigl Program: J. Lovett, soprano; John Flynt, baritone; Vally Weigl, and Shirley Greitzer-Aronoff, piano.
19 October 1974	New York, Donnell Library, Austrian Institute and Bruckner Society of America, Mahler—Weigl Program: Julia Lovett, soprano; Edmund Le Roy, baritone. Also on program: Mahler songs: Edmund Le Roy, baritone; Vally Weigl, piano; and Julia Lovett, soprano; Nancy Garniez, piano.
2 June 1981	Spoleto, Washington: Piccolo Spoleto, All-Weigl Program: Linda Eckard, soprano; Bruce Fifer, baritone; Max Lifchit, piano.
1 September 1987	Detroit, Michigan, Wayne State University, Community Arts Auditorium, The Karl Weigl Festival, concert 1: Three Songs for contralto and string quartet (Hilda Harris and New World String Quartet [Curtis Macomber, Vahn Armstrong, Robert Dan, Ross Harbaugh]), Viola Sonata (Paul Silverthorne and Doris Richards), Five Duets for soprano and tenor (Ernestine Nimmona, George Shirley, and Doris Richards), Two Pieces for cello and piano (Marcy Chanteaux and Doris Richards), and Five Songs for soprano and string quartet (Ernestine Nimmona and New World String Quartet).
8 September 1987	New York, Merkin Hall, The Karl Weigl Concerts, The Unbroken Tradition—Karl Weigl in Vienna and in Exile, concert I, All Weigl Program: Three Songs for contralto and string quartet (Hilda Harris and New World String Quartet [Curtis Macomber, Vahn Armstrong, Robert Dan, Ross Harbaugh]), Viola Sonata (Paul Silverthorne and Doris Richards), Five Songs for soprano and string quartet Lucy Shelton and New World String Quartet), Wild Dance from Two Pieces for cello and piano (Marcy Chanteaux and Doris Richards), and Five Duets for soprano and baritone (Lucy Shelton, George Shirley, and Alan Smith).
2 December 1989	Chicago, University of Chicago, Goodspeed Recital Hall, Viennese Crosscurrents, Karl Weigl, Neo- Romanticism, and the Modernist Movement, concert 2: Love Song and Seven Songs op. 1 (Bruce Tammen and Kit Bridges); Five Songs from Phantasus op. 9 (Elsa Charlston and Kit Bridges); Five Duets for soprano and baritone nos. 1 and 3 (Elsa Charlston, Bruce Tammen, Kit Bridges). Also on program: Berg, Seven Early Songs; songs by Wolf, Mahler, and Korngold.
2 October 1999	Budapest, Benczúr Ház, The Music of Karl Weigl Memorial Concerts, concert 1: Three Songs op. 12 nos. 2 and 3, Love Songs op. 22 nos. 3 and 4, and Love Song (Evelyn Chih-Yih Chan and Bárkányi Eva); Two Pieces for cello op. 33 (Maróth Balint and Bárkányi Eva); Five Duets for soprano and baritone (Evelyn Chih-Yih Cha, Michael Kutner and Bárkányi Eva); String Quartet No. 4 (Akadémia Quartet [Környei Zsófia, Bodó Antónia, Móré László, Maróth Bálint)].

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