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Gurrelieder
Schoenberg began composing the Gurrelieder
in March, 1900. It is a setting of Jens Peter Jacobsen’s
Gurre-Lieder. Schoenberg originally intended it to be
a song cycle for voice and piano so that he could enter
it in a competition. However, the work became a series
of tableaux, with the poem being set as a vast cantata
for several soloists, huge chorus and orchestra with
symphonic interludes. (Grove Dictionary of Music &
Musicians)
The
Book Orpheus in New Guises
by Erwin Stein has a description of the composition
of the Gurrelieder and a review of the first performance.
It is based on the legend of ‘King
Waldemar, who in sorrow over his lost love strives with
fate and is doomed to roam for ever as a wild huntsman
through the forests by night’.
Performers
Australian Youth Orchestra
Conductor - Diego
Masson
Waldemar - Horst
Hoffmann
Waldtraube - Bernadette Cullen
Klaus-Narr - Barry Ryan
Tove - Nicole Youl
Bauer - Gary Rowley
Sprecher - Gerald English
Choir Master - Andrew Wailes
Members of the University of Western Australia Choral
Society, Perth Undergraduate Choral Society, Australian
Intervarsity Choral Festival Singers and the Royal Melbourne
Philharmonic Choir
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
You can read a brief biography
of Schoenberg.
The State Library has an extensive
range of books on Schoenberg's life and works including:
Arnold Schoenberg by Charles Rosen (1975) 113p
The Arnold Schoenberg Companion edited by Walter B.
Bailey (1998) 335p
Schoenberg : his life, world, and work by H. H. Stuckenschmidt,
(1977) 531p
Schoenberg and his world edited by Walter Frisch (1999)
352p
Schoenberg : a critical biography by Willi Reich (1971)
268p
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