© by György Ligeti (1923 - 2006) and by Michael Kurt Johannes Alf Meschke (b. 1931)
Language: German (Deutsch)
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Note: the opera is loosely based on Michel de Ghelderode's play, La Balade du Grand Macabre, 1934.
Text Authorship:
- by György Ligeti (1923 - 2006), copyright ©
- by Michael Kurt Johannes Alf Meschke (b. 1931), copyright ©
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by György Ligeti (1923 - 2006), "[No title]", 1974-1977 [ soprano and orchestra ], from opera Le Grand Macabre, revised 1996, also set in English
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Geoffrey David Skelton (1916 - 1998) ; composed by György Ligeti.
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