Love songs waltz

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Liebeslieder Walzer is the name of two cycles of songs in waltz - or Landler -Stroke for four voices ( choir ) and Piano Four Hands by Johannes Brahms : the love songs. Waltzes , Op. 52 and Neue Liebeslieder , Op. 65. The texts are (with one exception) from the collection Polydora of Georg Friedrich Daumer , the international adaptations of free folk poetry is.

Emergence

The set texts from Daumer's collection are based on Russian, Polish and Hungarian originals. The first collection, Op. 52, is a loose sequence of love songs on lyrical, indulgent, cheerful and ironic, but also energetically determined texts, about which the composer himself judged: “By the way, I would like to risk being called a donkey when our love songs not make some people happy. ”In contrast, the texts in the second collection deal predominantly with the dark side of love: distrust, disappointment and renunciation. All in all, it can be stated that Brahms' inspired setting of Daumer's texts saved a text base with little literary content from final oblivion, which is not an isolated case in music history.

The 18 Liebeslieder-Waltzes op. 52 were written in the summer of 1868. Before the work was published the following year, there was a dispute between Brahms and his publisher Simrock about the cast of the work: Simrock added the title “with singing ad libitum ” to the title “To appeal to larger groups of buyers. Brahms reluctantly agreed, but insisted on publishing the vocal parts and only having a piano edition follow later. Brahms later made his own version for piano four hands without vocals (op.52a), which deviates in many details from the piano parts of the sung edition. For the vocal parts, Brahms had originally expressly intended to have solo voices, and he initially strictly opposed choral performances. When he later praised a choral performance as "exemplary", he may have changed his mind on this point.

Brahms made an arrangement of a selection of 9 songs for orchestra, also with singing ad libitum , for a performance in 1870. However, it did not appear in print until 1938.

Because of the great success of the first collection, Brahms had the second collection of 15 more songs followed in 1874 as Neue Liebeslieder op. 65.

The titles

Love songs waltz op.52

  1. Talk, girl, too dear
  2. The tide rushes on the rocks
  3. O the women ( tenor and bass )
  4. Like the evening's beautiful blush ( soprano and alto )
  5. The green hop tendril
  6. A small, pretty bird
  7. It was well done ( soprano or alto )
  8. If so please your eyes for me
  9. On the Danube beach
  10. O how gentle the spring
  11. No, there is no way
  12. Open locksmiths and make locks
  13. Vogelein rushes through the air ( soprano and alto )
  14. See how is the wave clear ( tenor and bass )
  15. Nightingale, she sings so beautifully
  16. A dark shaft is love
  17. Don't walk, my light ( tenor )
  18. The bushes shake

New love songs op.65

  1. Renunciation, oh heart, of salvation
  2. Dark shadows of the night
  3. The fingers on each hand ( soprano )
  4. Your black eyes ( bass )
  5. True true your son ( old )
  6. I put roses on my mother ( soprano )
  7. From the mountains well to well
  8. Soft grass in the area
  9. I feel gnawing at my heart ( soprano )
  10. I kiss sweetly with this and that ( tenor )
  11. Everything, everything in the wind ( soprano )
  12. Black forest, your shadow
  13. No lover, sit down ( soprano and alto )
  14. Flame eye, dark hair
  15. In conclusion: Well, you muses, enough ( Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe )

premiere

The first public performance of the collection of songs took place on January 5, 1870, with Clara Schumann and Brahms themselves at the piano, as well as with the following singers: Louise Dustmann-Meyer (soprano), Rosa Girzick (alto), Gustav Walter (tenor) and Emil Krauss ( Bass).

swell

  • Matthias Walz: love songs. Waltz op.52 . In: Hans Gebhard (Ed.): Harenberg Chormusikführer. Harenberg, Dortmund 1999, ISBN 3-611-00817-6
  • Michael Musgrave: Foreword and Critical Commentary. In: Johannes Brahms: Liebeslieder. Stuttgart, Carus CV 40.211, ISMN M-007-06531-7
  • Ralf Wehner: Schubert and Brahms: Masters of the Song . 1992. Booklet for CD Sony SBK 48 176

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