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Blühen

Sheet Music: Performance Parts

Blühen : for soprano, string sextet and piano / Jack Symonds ; text: Richard Dehmel.

by Jack Symonds (2020)

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  • Instrumentation: Soprano, 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, piano.

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This song cycle is a portrait of the German fin-de-siècle poet Richard Dehmel. Lines and stanzas from five of Dehmel's poems are woven together to give glimpses of a world vision which trembles on the brink of Expressionism, seeped through with an mystical, weary Romanticism. I have attempted to create a continuity of image from the storms of desire (Ansturm) through the haunted, nocturnal 'blossoming' of death-soaked flowers (Maiblumen blühten überall), a gnomic vision of a lonely, inhuman place (Aufblick) leading to a chilling apparition (Erwartung) and finally, the ambiguous horror of true recognition (Die stille Stadt).

Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 set of 7 performance parts (91p. -- A4 (portrait))

Difficulty: Advanced — microtones, large vocal range, difficult string writing

Duration: 11 mins

Dedicated to Jessica Aszodi

Commission info: Commissioned by the Adelaide Festival of Arts and the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide as recipient of the John Bishop Memorial Commission 2020

First performance by Jessica Aszodi, Jack Symonds at Adelaide Festival 2021 - Transfigured Night (UKARIA Cultural Centre) on 5 Mar 2021

Part for the piano is a copy of the score. The work is designed to be conducted from the piano.

The composer notes the following styles, genres, influences, etc in relation to this work:
German poetry, poetry, expressionism, string sextets, song cycles

Typeset edition.

This edition produced 5 Feb 21.


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