Dresden Te Deum
The Dresden Te Deum ( RMWV 8) is a sacred choral work by Rudolf Mauersberger based on words from the Bible and the hymn book for alto and baritone solo, two separately set up mixed choirs and an orchestra each consisting of one or two oboes , clarinets , bassoons , horns and trumpet as well as one to three trombones , two timpani , a bass drum, glockenspiel, stick bells, one to two violins , cello and double bass as well as harp and organand liturgy. The Dresden Te Deum is Mauersberger's first major liturgical work.
History of origin
In terms of the cast, the work fits into Mauersberger's creative phase from 1914 to 1918, during which his symphony and large orchestral songs were written. Erna Hedwig Hofmann mentioned plans by Mauersberger around 1917 for a Te Deum Laudatus in oratorical style for the consecration of the newly built church in Lyck (today Elk in Poland). The plans were not implemented until forty years later. The Dresden Te Deum was written between 1944 and 1945. Mauersberger wrote the first five sentences in 1944 in still undestroyed Dresden, the rest shortly before the end of the war in Mauersberg . The original title was Liturgical Te Deum from words from the Bible and the hymn book . The plan was to perform the composition in the Kreuzkirche in Dresden after the end of the war .
The Dresden Te Deum is received differently: In view of the premiere, Erna Hedwig Hofmann wrote of an overwhelming cultic-musical celebration , the musicologist Matthias Herrmann called it stylistically and conceptually something really wrong . The inconsistent composition was the reason for the negative attitude. It results from the fact that the work was partly created in the last year of the war and after the end of the acts of war of the Second World War and the associated thanks for being saved from greater disaster. Mauersberger rearranged and changed the plant several times. The last version of the Dresden Te Deum dates from 29./30. July 1963.
The Dresden Te Deum contains personal statements, hopes, prayers and thanksgiving by Mauersberger, which gives it a high biographical value. According to Herrmann, fluctuating moods, the longing for peace, the pressure from outside [...] led to a work that only partially does justice to the claim to artistically elevate the concrete into the general .
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construction
The Dresden Te Deum consists of eight movements plus a preceding adiutorium and a liturgical appendix. Movement IV begins with an instrumental prelude. The work ends with Paul Gerhardt's peace chorale from 1648, praise God, now the noble word of peace and joy has come out . Mauersberger only roughly adheres to the structure of the hymn of praise , as Martin Luther had Germanized it in 1529. Mauersberger does not make the Tu rex gloriae clear as a separate section.
Text selection, use of the choirs, music
For the Te Deum in Dresden, Mauersberger chose, among other things, psalm verses , texts from the Revelation of John and the letter to the Galatians .
Mauersberger has the male tenor and bass voices sing meaningful verses in unison . In the fourth movement the bass sings: I vowed you, God, that I wanted to thank you . These and other bass solos with first-person statements suggest that both Hofmann and Grün assume that Mauersberger himself can be seen in these solos.
The Dresden Te Deum is Mauersberger's first major attempt to create spatial tension with choirs. As later with the Dresden Requiem and the St. Luke Passion , the choirs assume different functions. The main choir on the gallery carries the psalm words, the smaller altar choir the words of Christ. The altar choir wears liturgical vestments and collars.
Apart from the instrumental prelude to the fourth movement, the music in Dresden's Te Deum only has a limited function of its own. It is more of a text interpreting character.
structure
The structure follows the Rudolf Mauersberger works directory.
| RMW 8 | Beginning of text | information |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adiutorium Deus in adiutorium meum intende | |
| 2 | Sentence I God, my God, I want to praise your name | |
| 3 | Sentence II Lord, what is man | |
| 4th | Sentence III I hope in God | |
| 5 | Movement IV with orchestral prelude When war rises again me | |
| 6th | Sentence V Lord, I hold myself to your altar | |
| 7th | Sentence VI Help your people | |
| 8th | Movement VII Lord, hear the voice of my supplication | |
| 9 | Sentence VIII My God, I hope in you | |
| 10 | Liturgical appendix | |
| 11 | Final chorale Thank god, now it has sounded | Text: Paul Gerhardt |
literature
- Matthias Herrmann: Rudolf Mauersberger catalog raisonné . 2nd Edition. Saxon State Library, Dresden 1991.
- Matthias Grün: Rudolf Mauersberger studies on life and work . 1st edition. Gustav Bosse Verlag, Regensburg 1986, ISBN 3-7649-2319-9 .
- Matthias Herrmann: Kreuzkantor zu Dresden Rudolf Mauersberger . 1st edition. Mauersberger Museum, 2004, ISBN 3-00-015131-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erna Hedwig Hofmann. Kreuzchor anno 45 . P. 117
- ↑ Erna Hedwig Hofmann in Neue Zeit Deutsches Te Deum in liturgical form on October 14, 1948
- ^ Letter to Matthias Grün dated August 18, 1984
- ^ Matthias Herrmann: Kreuzkantor zu Dresden Rudolf Mauersberger . 1st edition. Mauersberger Museum, 2004, ISBN 3-00-015131-1 .
- ↑ Erna Hedwig Hofmann. The Dresden Kreuzchor . Leipzig. 1962
- ^ Matthias Grün: Rudolf Mauersberger studies on life and work . 1st edition. Gustav Bosse Verlag, Regensburg 1986, ISBN 3-7649-2319-9 .