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Wanderbilder ( Op. 17) is the title of a cycle for piano for two hands by Adolf Jensen . The work, which can be assigned to the program music, consists of twelve character pieces and describes in chronological order moods and impressions during the day of a hike. The mill was particularly popular as a single piece .

The individual pieces

Booklet 1

  • 1. Morning greeting - fresh mood with moderate movement - F major
  • 2. Happy Wanderer - Lively and carefree - A flat major
  • 3. The mill - leisurely, not dragging - in C major
The motto above the notes is a text by Wilhelm Müller , which Franz Schubert set to music in his song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin .

I see a mill flashing
Out of the alder trees,
Through rustling and singing
Breaking wheels
Egg welcome, egg welcome, sweet mill song
!

  • 4. Cross on the way - Not fast, gloomy and melancholy - A minor
  • 5. Distant vision - Very lively and excited - E major
  • 6. Festivities in the village - Quite quickly, with the expression of bright joy - A major

Issue 2

  • 7. Afternoon Silence - In Quiet Movement - D major
  • 8. Waldkapelle - Slow, serious and quiet - D minor
  • 9. Reaping reapers - moderately agitated, tender (introduction) - lively, with cheerful grace - B flat major
  • 10. In the tavern - fast, informal and with humor - G major
  • 11. Wisps - Very nimble and secret - B minor
  • 12. Nachtgesang - simple, meaningful - F major

The keys and their meaning

The keys of two consecutive pieces are (with the exception of the last two) always relatively closely related , with both thirds and fifths related . The coherence of the cycle is emphasized by the common key of the first piece ( morning greeting ) and the last ( night song ), whereby the choice of the key in F major is no coincidence: Similar to Beethoven's pastoral symphony, the key here is supposed to be the nature-loving, " pastoral "basic character of the cycle should be underlined.

Although the key characteristic is fundamentally controversial and has lacked a physically verifiable basis since the advent of the same tempered mood , more or less pronounced associations between the keys and certain assigned characters or meanings have developed on a purely spiritual level. These play an obvious role here.

This is how z. B. the happy wanderer in A flat major, which is often described as "warm" and "soft" . The unclouded idyll of the "sweet mill song" is assigned the key of C major , which is considered "bright" and "clear" . The cross on the road is joined by A minor , which is described as "gentle" and "noble" and which has even been ascribed "pious femininity".

Opera fans will immediately associate the key of E major with two famous arias, namely the Leonore aria from Beethoven's opera Fidelio and the aria of Agathe from Weber's Freischütz . The memory of the exuberant enthusiasm that is expressed in both arias may have motivated Jensen's choice of this key for the enthusiastic delight on the occasion of the distant view . And the festivity in the village uses the same key of A major to express "bright joy" that Beethoven used in his Seventh Symphony for a sonic jubilation, which Wagner once described as the "apotheosis of dance".

The afternoon silence basks in the light of the "most festive of all keys" in D major , whereas the forest chapel is entered with the seriousness attributed to the key of D minor . The homecoming reapers finish their day's work in the slightly preloaded key of B flat major , and the merry fellows in the pub let off steam in the "happy" G major .

One associates darkness and death with the "black key" in B minor . What wonder that Jensen lets his will- o'-the-wisps dance in her! This means that the greatest possible distance from the basic key of F major of the cycle is reached, namely by the distance of a tritone , the devil's interval . The return to the conciliatory F major of the Nachtgesong takes place via an introductory modulation at the beginning of this piece, which ties in with the long-held third hd.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Note also the key parallel to Schubert's will- o'-the-wisp in Winterreise .

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