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The Gurre-Lieder form a massive oratorio for 5 soloists, reciter, chorus and orchestra, composed by Arnold Schoenberg, on poem texts by Danish novelist Jens Peter Jacobsen (translated from Danish to German by Robert Franz Arnold). Written in lush, late romantic style, and heavily influenced by Mahler, the composition was finished in short score in 1901 and orchestrated in 1911. Franz Schreker premiered the oratorio in Vienna on February 23, 1913. Leopold Stokowski gave the work its first recording in 1932. In early 1911 Schoenberg took some time out from his orchestration of Gurre-Lieder to compose his radically different Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke for solo piano.
Part One Part Two Herrgott, weisst du, was du tatest Part Three Des Sommerwindes wilde Jagd (The Wild Hunt of the Summer Wind) Instrumentation Gurre-Lieder is scored for an unusually large ensemble including: narrator, soprano, mezzo-soprano, two tenors, and bass-baritone soloists, three part male choruses, eight part mixed choir, four piccolos, four flutes, three oboes, two English horns, three clarinets in A & B-flat, two E-flat clarinets, two bass clarinets, three bassoons, two contrabassoons, ten horns (four doubling Wagner tubas), six trumpets in F, B-flat, & C, bass trumpet in E-flat, alto trombone, four tenor trombones, bass trombone, contrabass trombone, tuba, four harps, celesta, six timpani, tenor drum, cymbals, triangle, glockenspiel, small bass drum, large bass drum, xylophone, ratchet, large iron chains, tam-tam, and strings. Discography | ||||||||
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