De temporum fine comoedia - The game of the end of times
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| Title: | De temporum fine comoedia - The game of the end of times |
| Shape: | Oratorio opera |
| Original language: | ancient Greek , Latin , German |
| Music: | Carl Orff |
| Libretto : | Carl Orff |
| Literary source: | Sibylline prophecies , Orphic hymns |
| Premiere: | 20th August 1973 |
| Place of premiere: | Salzburg |
| Playing time: | approx. 1 hour 15 minutes |
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De temporum fine comoedia - The game from the end of times (also: De temporum fine comœdia) is an oratorio opera by Carl Orff .
De temporum fine comoedia is Orff's last major work in which he deals intensively with the chorale rhythm, the percussive structure and the contrast between polyphony, homophony and antiphony.
layout
construction
The work is divided into three images :
- The Sibyls
- The anchorites
- "Dies illa"
Instrumentation
- six flutes (also piccolo flutes ), six E flat clarinets (also three clarinets ), contrabassoon
- six horns , eight trumpets , six trombones , tuba
- Viola quartet, eight double basses
- large percussion (25-30 players: three small drums , six bell drums , three stirring drums , large drum with cymbals , large drum, three darabukkas , three tom-toms , six congas , bass-conga, four small timpani with wooden plate, five timpani, crotales , suspended cymbal, cymbals, three tom-toms , two large tam-tams, Gong , Dobachi , five high bronze bells, tubular bells , Güiro , whip , maracas , six castanets , hyoshigi , Angklung , three wooden bells, five block of wood drums, ratchet , double ratchet, three large church ratchets , eleven glasses (or glass harp ), two chimes , stone game , xylophone , xylophone , tenor Xylopohon, bass xylophone, two marimbas )
- Celesta , three harps , three pianos , electronic organ , organ
- Tape recordings: flute piccolo, two trumpets, timpani, percussion (crotales, glockenspiel, marimba, wind machine )
history
Emergence
The work was premiered in 1973 at the Salzburg Festival by Herbert von Karajan with a group of renowned soloists (including Christa Ludwig and Josef Greindl ). Due to the complexity of her writing, the high demands on numbers, and the unrewarding nature of her extremely violent but repetitive music, she is very rarely played these days. In contrast, and all the better, there are two sublime moments because of the peace: Satan's threefold call "Father, Peccavi" ("Father, I have sinned"), punctuated by muffled trumpets, and the last canon for violas.
In 1977 the composer revised his work. This new version was in 1977 in Stuttgart, Ferdinand Leitner and 1980 in Munich under Rafael Kubelik concert listed. Orff revised the work again for the printing of the score in 1981. This last version was staged for the first time on May 15, 1994 in the Ulm Theater.
Recordings / discography
- Anna Tomowa-Sintow , Christa Ludwig , Peter Schreier , Josef Greindl , Rolf Boysen ; Cologne Radio Choir , RIAS Chamber Choir , Tölzer Boys Choir ; Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra ; Herbert von Karajan . Deutsche Grammophon 1973
literature
- Alberto Fassone: Carl Orff . 2nd Edition. Libreria Musicale Italiana, Lucca 2009, ISBN 978-88-7096-580-3 .
- Horst Leuchtmann (Ed.): Carl Orff. A memorial book . Hans Schneider, Tutzing 1985, ISBN 3-7952-0451-8 .
- Andreas Liess: Two essays on Carl Orff: De Temporum Fine Comoedia. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1981.
- Carl Orff and his work. Documentation . Volume VIII: Theatrum Mundi . Hans Schneider, Tutzing 1983, ISBN 3-7952-0373-2 .
- Reinhard Raffalt : The game of the end of times. In: ders .: Western culture and Christianity. Essays. Piper, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-492-02470-X , pp. 229-240.
- Thomas Rösch (ed.): Text, music, scene ─ The music theater by Carl Orff. Symposium Orff Center Munich 2007 . Schott, Mainz 2015, ISBN 978-3-7957-0672-2 .
- Thomas Rösch: On the meaning of the »hypocryphic quotations« in the last part »Dies illae« of Carl Orff's »De temporum fine comoedia« . In: ders. (Ed.): Text, Music, Scene ─ Das Musiktheater von Carl Orff. Symposium Orff Center Munich 2007 . Schott, Mainz 2015, ISBN 978-3-7957-0672-2 , pp. 247-299.
- Werner Thomas: Carl Orff, De temporum fine comoedia. The game of the end of times - Vigilia. An interpretation. Hans Schneider, Tutzing 1973, ISBN 3-7952-0132-2 .
- Werner Thomas: Das Rad der Fortuna ─ Selected essays on the work and impact of Carl Orff . Schott, Mainz 1990, ISBN 3-7957-0209-7 .
- Werner Thomas: De temporum fine comoedia. In: Carl Dahlhaus (Ed.): Piper's Enzyklopädie des Musiktheater . Volume 4. Piper, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-492-02414-9 , p. 581 ff.
- Werner Thomas: To the unknown god. An unexecuted choral work by Carl Orff . Schott, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-7957-0323-9 .
Web links
- De temporum fine comœdia - The game from the end of times (1973/1981) on orff.de, accessed on August 15, 2019
- De temporum fine comoedia , work information at Schott Music