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).
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.
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