Klopslied
The Klopslied is a piece of music by Kurt Weill from 1925, which he composed for a soprano or tenor part . The voice is accompanied by two piccolo flutes and a bassoon . The text, written in Berlin dialect , comes from the Europa-Almanach published in the same year , edited by Carl Einstein and Paul Westheim . The first documented performance of the Weill song took place on December 14, 1927 in Berlin on the occasion of the wedding of Thea and Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt .
Musical structure
The piece is written in 2/4 time and bears the tempo designation Giocoso ( joyful, playful ). The composer gives the metronome value 
= 112, so the quarter note should be played in 112 beats per minute. The Klopslied has 43 bars that sound without repetition. It therefore takes about a minute, depending on the interpretation. The musical volume moves between 
( forte ), 
( pianissimo ) and in the final note of the voice with the last ick! 
( fortissimo ). There is no fixed, continuous key , the harmony of the composition also consists of several open chords . The rhythms, motifs and melody of the voices of the piccolo flutes and the bassoon, alienated from each other, are reminiscent of 19th century Berlin folk songs.
text
I sit there and eat Klops
uff eemal klopp's
Ick kieke, amazed, amazed me,
uf sometime it goes on the door.
Well, think ick, ick think well,
now it is uff, first it was closed!
I always go out and peek
and who's outside? Icke! Icke! Icke !!
Interpretations (examples)
- In 1981 the singer Teresa Stratas Weills recorded Klopslied with piano accompaniment ( Nonesuch Records CD D-79019)
- In 1994, Blumfeld singer Jochen Distelmeyer quoted the text in the play Amplifier
- In 2010 the Austrian chansonnier and composer HK Gruber recorded the song with musicians from Ensemble Modern (Largo CD 5114) ( audio sample )
- In 2013, the Berlin band " Buzz Dees " used the lyrics of the Klopslied as an intro for their song Icke around Knorkator guitarist Buzz Dee
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ Torsten Harmsen: Poems from Berlin: Heart, Snout and Abysses. In: Berliner Zeitung . April 10, 2017, accessed on June 3, 2017 (review of an anthology with Berlin poems from 1830 to today).
- ↑ Internet site of the Kurt-Weill-Foundation ( Memento of the original dated November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lys Simonette: The Unknown Kurt Weill , European American Music Corporation, New York 1982, p. 10 ff.
- ↑ Horst Buzzdee: Buzz Dees - Icke (official video, 1st cut). November 1, 2013, accessed July 19, 2018 .
