Ore Mountains cycle
The Erzgebirge cycle ( RMWV 5) is a secular and sacred choral work by the Dresden Kreuzkantor Rudolf Mauersberger . It was created between 1946 and 1954. The 24 individual pieces in the cycle are divided into four parts. The work is composed a cappella for solos and choirs of different groups .
History of origin and text selection
Mauersberger wrote the Ore Mountains cycle around 1950. It represents his last and most extensive cycle. The aim of the composition is to depict the Ore Mountain landscape and the life of the Ore Mountain people in tones . The work was largely created in Mauersberg in the Ore Mountains and in Dresden. The total premiere took place on September 25, 1959 by the Dresdner Kreuzchor in Dresden.
The musicologist Matthias Grün assumes the death of Mauersberger's mother in 1946 and his poor mental and physical condition in the following two years as the reason for the composition. For him, the composition represents a melancholy collection of memories of incidents. This is also evident in the opening piece, Der Heimat: Every evening, when I recognize many a picture in my mind .
structure
The structure follows the Rudolf Mauersberger works directory.
| RMW 4 | Work title and beginning of text | text | occupation | Autograph |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| to the entrance | ||||
| 1 | Home: Every evening, when so many images pass by in my mind |
From: Glückauf | 4-7-part mixed choir | 1950 / Dresden October 18, 1950 |
| Part I: Spring | ||||
| 2 | S Hausgärtel: Richt's Hausgärtel vir, you good leaders | Edwin Bauersachs | for soprano solo and three-part male choir | 1950 / Aug. 17, 1950 in Mauersberg |
| 3 | Mountain spring: A piece of lawn in the sunlight |
Erna Hedwig Hofmann | for soprano solo and 4-6-part mixed choir | 1950 / 20.8.1950 in Mauersberg |
| 4th | Old shaft to the Holy Trinity : Who knows the Krummhermersdorfer Trinity? |
Otto Thörner | for 4-6-part mixed choir | 1954, August |
| 5 | Spring morning in a small town in the Ore Mountains : The morning sparkles over the small, deeply sleepy houses |
Erna Hedwig Hofmann | for 4-6-part mixed choir | 1950 / Aug. 19, 1950 in Mauersberg |
| 6th | Erzgebirge fortified church: From Bergeshöh'n a church looks down in greeting |
Kurt Oestreich | for 4-6-part mixed choir | 1946 / Aug. 46 in Mauersberg |
| 7th | Please: I hear a blackbird beating A nocturno |
Karl Hans Pollmer | 1. Version for boy alto solo and 4-8-part mixed choir 2. Version for boy alto solo and 4-7-part boy choir |
1947 / June 8, 1947 in Mauersberg |
| Part II: Summer | ||||
| 8th | Around noon Am Gottesacker the noon is silent |
Erna Hedwig Hofmann | for boy solo part and 4-6 part mixed choir | 1950 / October 15 and 20 in Dresden |
| 9 | In the Upper Ore Mountains: Drought cattle in a team |
Otto Thörner | four-part mixed choir | 1950 / end of September in Dresden |
| 10 | Sankt Annenkirche: Like a solid castle and weir Sankt Annen zu Annaberg |
Kurt Oestreich | for 4-6-part mixed choir | 1946 / Aug. 46 i. Mauersberg |
| 11 | At the old post column: Where this little village comes to an end At an old post column from 1725 |
Curt Rambach | for soprano and alto solo and 4-5 part mixed choir | 1954, August |
| 12 | On the Fichtelberg: On the Fichtelberg with a green head |
unknown | for 4-6-part mixed choir | |
| 13 | 'Ne Bargfihring vu sistern (a mountain tour from the past ): Mei Bargwirt is renting |
unknown | for boy solo voice and three-part male choir | 1950 / Dresden October 1950 |
| 14th | Am Hirschstein: Between Hirtsaa and 'n Haßbärg |
from the magazine Glückauf | for two boy solo voices and three-part male choir | 1950 |
| Part III: Autumn | ||||
| 15th | Autumn night in the mountains The autumn night has risen brightly |
Canoe shepherd | for soprano solo and 4-8-part mixed choir | 1950 / 8th and 9th Aug. 1950 in Mauersberg |
| 16 | Beautiful spring stubble fields, above which the hound can feel |
Wilhelm Pleyer | for 4-5 part mixed choir | 1950 / middle. August 1950 in Mauersberg |
| 17th | The rowan tree in Morgenleithe There is an ash tree on Konradswiese |
Kurt Arnold Findeisen | for alto solo and 4-6-part mixed choir | 1950 / mid-August 1950 in Mauersberg |
| 18th | Ridge hike At the top of the Keilberg there is a path |
M. Schreiter | for four-part mixed choir | 1954 / August |
| 19th | When there is trouble (When there is a fair) | according to nursery rhymes from the Ore Mountains | for boy solo part ad libitum and three-part boy choir | 1954 / August |
| 20th | Migratory birds: Migratory birds fly over the forest over here |
Karl Hans Pollmer | for alto solo and 3-4 part male choir | 1950 / Aug. 24, 50 in Mauersberg |
| Part IV: Winter | ||||
| 21st | Wunderland Erzgebirge (Gene Christmas) Are you looking for your childhood wonderland |
Heinrich Anacker | for 4-7-part mixed choir | 1950 / Aug. 16, 50 in Mauersberg |
| 22nd | Advent song Now it's winter again How it's snowing |
Karl Hans Pollmer | for three-part choir (soprano 1/2, tenor) or three solo voices | 1948 / Aug. 30, 48 |
| 23 | Vir Christmas in Gebärg When uhm Christmas comes with us |
Stephan Dietrich | for 4-6-part mixed choir | 1954 / August |
| 24 | The year ends: twelve beats echo through the night |
Johannes Kruger | for boy solo part and 4-5 part mixed choir | 1950 / 15./16. October in Dresden |
Pieces 3, 15 and 24 are also used in Mauersberger's work Der kleine Jahrkreis (RMWV 6) for four mixed choirs a cappella.
reception
The musicologist Matthias Herrmann sees the work, like the Dresden cycle, more as a vocal collection [...] on a certain topic [...] than as a convincing complete work [...] .
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 .
Individual evidence and note
- ↑ Wolfram Böhme . Rudolf Mauersberger's secular choral work in Hofmann / Zimmermann encounters with Rudolf Mauersberger . 1963
- ^ Matthias Grün: Rudolf Mauersberger studies on life and work . 1st edition. Gustav Bosse Verlag, Regensburg 1986, ISBN 3-7649-2319-9 .
- ↑ a b c d e f autograph not available; Dating after Matthias Herrmann
- ^ Matthias Herrmann: Kreuzkantor zu Dresden Rudolf Mauersberger . 1st edition. Mauersberger Museum, 2004, ISBN 3-00-015131-1 .