World Festival
Full title | World Festival, symphonic cantata for tenor and high bass soloists, chorus, and orchestra op. 17 / Weltfeier, symphonische Kantate für Tenor- und Bariton-Solo, gemischten Chor und Orchester op. 17 | |
Date composed | 1910–1911 | |
Details |
Erster Teil / Part 1 1. Nanie 2. Gespräch mit dem Tode Zweiter Teil / Part 2 3. Nachstück 4. Weltfeier Part 1 completed December 1910; part 2 completed December 1911. Text by Heinrich Hart. Scoring: tenor and bass solo/SATB/2 (2nd alt. Picc.), 3, 3, 2 (2nd alt. contraBn.)/4, 3, 3, 1/perc./2 harps, organ (ad lib.)/strings/4 trombones backstage. Dedication: Meiner Mutter. Performance duration: ca. 60 min. (composer's estimate). |
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Manuscript sources | NYPL JOB 73-128, holograph full score (various paginations), with composer's note on title page: Meiner Mutter. Weigl jotted completion dates throughout, including at the end of part 1: 16./XII. 1910; and at the end of part 2: 20./XII. 1911. The final section, no. 4, shows a completion date of April 1910. See also NYPL JOB 73-129, cardboard-bound holograph piano-vocal reduction; LOCMA box-folder 75/11, sketches (92 pages and 2-page text inserts); ÖNB Mus.Hs. 36831; and ÖNB Ms 14485-4.Mus, a presentation copy of the published piano-vocal score, with the composer's holograph dedication: Paul Frankl mit den freundlichsten Wünschen! / Weihnachten 1925. | |
Publication details | B. Schott's Söhne, 1924: 31114 (orchestral materials and piano-vocal score). | |
Availabiity | Full score, vocal parts, and piano-vocal reduction available from FCP; full score available from KWF. | |
Recordings |
29 April 1922 | Vienna, Großer Konzerthaussaal: Georg Maikl, tenor; Karl Rössel, bass; Arbeiter-Symphonie-Orchester and Philharmonischer Chor, cond. Paul von Klenau (concert repeated 30 April 1922). |
6 February 1923 | Bochum, Bochumer Städtischer Musikverein: Paul Tödten, tenor; Hans Joachim Moser, bass; Bochumer Städtisches Orchester, cond. Rudolf Schulz-Dornburg. Also on program: works by Brahms; Smigelski; Rudi Stephan. |
13 April 1925 | Hamburg-Altona, Jubiläumskonzert: Chorverein Ottensen, cond. Norbert Weisert. |
7 November 1925 | Meißen: Robert Bröll, tenor; Karl Bemmann, bass; Lehrergesangverein Meißen and Stadtkapelle Meißen, cond. Walter Helm. |
January 1926 | Gotha, Musikverein: Gotha Symphonie-Orchester, cond. Hans Trinius. |
29 May 1926 | Chemnitz, 56th ADMV Tonkünstler festival: Fritz Zohsel, tenor; Walter Zimmer, bass; Chemnitzer Beamten-Gesangverein, Chemnitzer Lehrer-Gesangverein, and Chemnitzer Singakademie, cond. Oscar Malata. Also on program: works by H.H. Wetzler, Paul Mueller. |