Love Song
| Full title | Love Song for voice and piano / Liebeslied für Stimme und Klavier | |
| Date composed | 1936 | |
| Details |
Composed 1936. Text by H. F. Schell; translated into English by Vally Weigl. Original version: for soprano or tenor; vocal range: eb'–ab''. Revised version: for mezzo-soprano or baritone; vocal range: db'–gb''. |
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| Manuscript sources | NYPL JOB 73-115, holograph score. See also NYPL JPB 78-21, copyist's [?] score (1 folded folio), with later addition of English title and texts. | |
| Publication details | Not published in composer's lifetime. | |
| Availabiity | Score of original version available from KWF. | |
| Recordings | ||
Performances (click
icon to expand or collapse list)| 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)]. |
