by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Language: German (Deutsch)
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Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by John Maxwell Anderson (b. 1948), "Sonnets to Orpheus", 1988 [ mezzo-soprano, violin and piano ]
- by Conrad Beck (1901 - 1989), "Lyrische Kantate", 1931 [ soprano, alto, women's chorus and orchestra ]
- by Richard Rodney Bennett (1936 - 2012), "Sonnets To Orpheus", 1978-1979 [ violoncello and orchestra ]
- by Susan Morton Blaustein (b. 1953), "To Orpheus : four sonnets", copyright © 1982 [ mixed chorus ], Association for the Promotion of New Music, Ship Bottom, N.J.
- by Neil Clifton (1956 - 1986), "Sonnets to Orpheus", 1984 [ flute, clarinet, percussion, soprano, baritone, violin, cello, piano ], Seymour Group collection of contemporary Australian music 1976-2006
- by Cindy Cox (b. 1961), "Sonnets to Orpheus", 1989 [ mezzo-soprano and instrumental ensemble ]
- by Wolfgang Danzmayr (b. 1947), "… und mit Ende beginnt", 2000, first performed 2000 [ speaker, oboe, string quartet ], mit ausgewählten Texten von Rainer M. Rilke ('Sonette an Orpheus')
- by Thomas Cornelius Desi (b. 1967), "Orpheus-Sonette", 1991, first performed 1992 [ 3 oboes 3 harps, 3 percussions, 3 violas ]
- by Rafael D'Haene (b. 1943), "Sonette an Orpheus", 1987 [ soprano and orchestra ]
- by Paul-Heinz Dittrich (1930 - 2020), "Sonette an Orpheus", 1960 [ chorus and orchestra ], Verloren gegangen
- by John Eaton (1935 - 2015), "Sonette an Orpheus", 1966 [ electronics ]
- by Barbara Monk Feldman (b. 1953), "Pyramus and Thisbe", 2016 [ mezzo-soprano, tenor, mixed chorus and orchestra ], from opera Pyramus and Thisbe : an opera in one act, Libretto contains fragments of texts by Ovid (Metamorphoses), William Faulkner (The long summer), St. John of the Cross (Dark night of the soul), and Rainer Maria Rilke (Die Sonette an Orpheus)
- by Karsten Fundal (b. 1966), "Sonet til Orfeus", 1990 [ voice and piano ]
- by Karsten Fundal (b. 1966), "Entropia", published 2011 [ soprano, baritone, chorus, orchestra ], from Entropia, Copenhagen : Wilhelm Hansen; also employs a pre-recorded orchestral part
- by Nigel Llwyd William Helyer , "Songs from the Underworld", 2014 [ tape ], Songs from the Underworld remixes Rilke’s Sonnets of Orpheus with Maori song in a sound installation driven by seismic environmental data. The stringed instrument, at once Lyre, Weapon and Antennae, a parabola tuned into the world and the afterlife.
- by Theodor Hlouschek (1923 - 2010), "Sonette an Orpheus nach Rainer Maria Rilke" [ high voice, accordion and percussion ], placeholder
- by Tryggve Madsen (b. 1940), "Die Sonette an Orpheus", op. 131 [ voice, 2 violins, viola, violoncello ], Musikk-Husets forlag
- by William Thomas McKinley (1938 - 2015), "Sonnette an Orpheus", 1993 [ soprano, mezzo-soprano, baritone and string quartet ], from Der Baum des Lebens, no. 1, MMC Publications or Borken : Druckerei Lage GmbH
- by Willy Merz (b. 1964), "Sonette an Orpheus", 2002 [ soprano, violin, piano ]
- by Marta Ptaszyńska (b. 1943), "Die Sonette an Orpheus", first performed 1989 [ voice and chamber orchestra ]
- by Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky (b. 1945), "Cantique pour Orfeo", 1987 [ baritone and piano ]
- by (Ivy) Priaulx Rainier (1903 - 1986), "Sonnets to Orpheus" [ chorus ], unfinished
- by Cláudio Franco de Sá Santoro (1919 - 1989), "Aus den Sonetten an Orpheus" [ tenor, chorus, orchestra ], Placeholder for cantata
- by Brunhilde Sonntag (1936 - 2002), "Sonette an Orpheus", 1994 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from 3 Imitationen. 4 Lieder nach Gedichten von Joseph von Eichendorff, Rainer Maria Rilke und Hermann Hesse
- by Aurel Stroe (1932 - 2008), "Sonette an Orpheus", 1992 [ mixed chorus, saxophone, timpani ], from Chorales et Comptines, Placeholder
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba), a translation by Velta Sniķere (1920 - 2022) ; composed by Tālivaldis Ķeniņš.
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