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BTC1083 SECHS HÖLDERLIN-FRAGMENTE

For voice and piano, op. 61
Composition date: Summer 1958
First performance: 14 Nov 1958 (pre-recorded on 20 Oct 1958) >>
Type of performance: Radio broadcast
Location: BBC Third Programme
Performance details:

Peter Pears ten, Benjamin Britten pf

Genre: Solo vocal
Text: Friedrich Hölderlin (set in German)
Duration: 12'
Dedication: 'Meinem Freund, dem Prinzen Ludwig von Hessen und bei Rhein, zum fünfzigsten Geburtstag'

'My friend, Prince Ludwig of Hess and the Rhine, on his fiftieth birthday'. (See Songs from the Chinese, op. 58 for biographical details.)

Numbers

  • 1 Menschenbeifall (The Applause of Men)
  • 2 Die Heimat (Home)
  • 3 ''Sokrates und Alcibiadesii (Socrates and Alcibiades)
  • 4 Die Jugend (Youth)
  • 5 Hälfte des Lebens (The Middle of Life)
  • 6 Die Linien des Lebens (Lines of Life)

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