The summer
composer: György Ligeti
text writer: Friedrich Hölderlin
Dedication: für Dagmar Meiler
Premiere: 10. April 1995 Music today Festival, University of Oregon · Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Sopran · Barbara González Palmer, Klavier
Instrumentation: voice and piano
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 3' 0''
Year of composition: 1989
Difficulty: advanced
Edition: Register: high
Language: German
8 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-001-12097-5
Order number: ED 8690
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Description
Those familiar with Ligeti’s vocal compositions will be surprised by this seemingly simple and plain musical miniature after a poem by Hölderlin. Even though composed during the same period as the “Nonsense Madrigals” with their labyrinthine rhythms and their novel diatonic harmonies, the piece harks back to the 19th century as far as Schubert in its use of traditional means to convey the striking atmosphere and mellow summery mood of the poem.
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