20th Century Composition

(Schott). Preface * Vorwort * Preface * Kostumentwurfe * Feuervogel: * Introduction * I. Tableau: Le jardin enchante de Kastchei * Apparition de l'oiseau de feu poursuivi par Ivan Tsarevitch * Danse de l'oiseau de feu * Capture de l'oiseau de feu par Ivan Tsarevitch * Supplication de l'oiseau de feu * Apparition fes treize princesses enchantees * Jeu des princesses avec les pommes d'or. Scherzo * Brusque apparition d'Ivan Tsarevitch * Corovod (Ronde) des princesses * Lever du jour * Ivan Tsarevitch penetre dans le palais de Kastchei * Carillon feerique, apparition des monstres-gardiens de Kastchei et capture d'Ivan Tsarevitch * Arrivee de Kastchei l'immortel * Dialog de Kastchei avec Ivan Tsarevitch * Intercession des princesses * Apparition de l'oiseau de feu * Danse de la suite de Kastchei enchantee par l'oiseau de feu * Danse infernale de tous les sujets de Kastchei * Berceuse (L'oiseau de feu) * Reveil de Kastchei * Mort de Kastchei * Profondes tenebres * II. Tableau: Disparation du palais et des sortileges de Kastchei, animation des chevaliers petrifies. Allegresse generale

In a number of his early compositions, Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) expressed the strong emotions stirred in him by the poetry of Richard Dehmel. Among these seminal works, Verklärte Nacht (1988) stands out for the beauty and strength of its chromatic language, drawing on Wagner's advances in Tristan und Isolde for its emotional impact. The program of Verklärte Nacht is a love story. Yet, in both its content and psychology, the work clearly anticipates the innovative twentieth-century music Schoenberg himself helped to forge. Pierrot Lunaire, one of Schoenberg's best-known and most striking works, was composed in 1912. It is a music setting for solo voice and chamber ensemble of 21 poems by Albert Giraud, translated into German by the Expressionist poet Otto Erich Hartleben. In this satiric work, evoking moods that are by turns ironic, melodramatic, and sinister, Schoenberg incorporates a highly specialized use of the speaking voice, the singing-speech delivery call Sprechstimme, within an instrumental framework of jolting atonality. Both Verklärte Nacht and Pierrot Lunaire deeply influenced the development of the Second Viennese School and, in time, the course of twentieth-century music. They are reprinted here from authoritative editions.

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