Le Roi David
Le Roi David , with the German title König David , subtitled Symphonic Psalm , is an oratorio by the Swiss-French composer Arthur Honegger based on a drama by René Morax . It was initially conceived as a stage play, written within a few months and rehearsed and on June 11, 1921 Théâtre du Jorat in Vaud place Mezieres premiered. In the interests of easier performance, Honegger and Morax have rewritten it from a stage piece to an oratorio for soprano, alto, tenor, a speaker, a mixed choir and orchestra. In this version it has seen numerous performances since 1923. There are several free translations of the French text version into German and a. by Hans Reinhart in Winterthur.
literature
- Walter Dietrich : "Le Roi David". A modern oratorio and its biblical model. In: Christiane Karrer-Grube, Jutta Krispenz, Thomas Krüger, Christian Rose, Annette Schellenberg (eds.): Languages - Images - Sounds. Dimensions of theology in the Old Testament and its environment. Festschrift for Rüdiger Bartelmus on his 65th birthday (= Old Orient and Old Testament . Vol. 359). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-86835-017-3 , pp. 11-21.
Individual evidence
- ↑ A recording of a Moscow concert with the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio and the Wiener Singverein under Vladimir Fedossejew on September 30, 2012 (sung in French with Russian interludes) is available at the following address ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2012 on 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. available in the network.
