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Antonín Dvorák Verlassen / Opusteny

aus: Vier Chorlieder op. 29,2, 1876

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Score Carus 40.251/40, ISMN 979-0-007-10430-6 6 pages, DIN A4, without cover Minimum order quantity: 20 copies
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  • Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904), next to Smetana and Janacek the most important exponent of specifically Czech music, now ranks (also in general) as one of the most popular composers of the nineteenth century. The son of a butcher-innkeeper in the Bohemian town of Nelahozeves (Mühlhausen) near Kralup, he first became known in his homeland for his patriotic hymn "The Heirs of the White Mountain" for chorus and orchestra, op.30, that he wrote in 1872. His road out into the world was opened by a commission consisting of Johannes Brahms, Eduard Hanslick and Johann von Herbeck, that selected him for an Austrian government stipend. Brahms, who was seven years the elder, took a friendly interest in his younger colleague whose eminent talent he had recognized and had come to admire. (Brahms: "That fellow has more ideas than all of us together. Every other composer could cull main themes from what he throws away.") Brahms recommended Dvo"rák to his Berlin publisher, Simrock, who later became Dvo"rák's chief publisher though he was obstinate and at first quite difficult. International fame came to Dvo"rák as a composer and – beginning in 1884 – as conductor of his own works mainly through his sensational successes in England (he went there for lengthy sojourns a total of nine times) and in the United States (two long visits spent in teaching and composing). His success was sparked chiefly by a sacred work, his Stabat Mater that was written in 1876 (Carus 27.293/03). Right until his late period, church music was never missing from the list of his important compositions: the symphonic poems, the operas (among them "Rusalka"), the symphonies, the string quartets and other chamber music works, the oratorio "St. Ludmila" - and the Slavonic Dances op.46 and op.72. To the Stabat Mater op.58 (1876/77) mentioned above, he added the "149th Psalm" op.79 (1879/87), the Requiem op.89 (1890) (Carus 27.323) and the Te Deum op.103 (1892) (Carus 27.189). Personal details
  • Heidi Kirmße (1925–2021) studierte Schulmusik in Weimar und lebte dort als freischaffende Schriftstellerin, Herausgeberin und Übersetzerin. Für den Carus-Verlag erstellte sie insbesondere zahlreiche singbare deutsche Nachdichtungen aus unterschiedlichen Sprachen, u.a. für Kompositionen von Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Antonín Dvorák, Gabriel Fauré, Edvard Grieg, Georg Friedrich Händel, Jules Massenet, Sergei Rachmaninow, Max Reger, Gioachino Rossini, Veljo Tormis, Giuseppe Verdi u.a., doch trat sie auch mit eigenen Texten in Erscheinung. Über 500 mittlerweile unveröffentlichte oder mittlerweile vergriffene Texte ihres umfangreichen Schaffens als Dichterin und Übersetzerin sind bei Carus in einer separaten Datenbank erfasst und können bei Interesse erfragt werden. Von ihrem bewussten, hinterfragenden Umgang mit Worten zeugt Heidi Kirmßes Gedicht mit dem gleichlautenden Titel:


    Worte

    So viele Worte werden viel zu oft gesagt,
    so viele Fragen werden nicht genug gefragt.
    Wo keine Frage steht, wird niemals eine Antwort sein,
    und durch Gewöhnung wird der Sinn der Worte klein.

    Und ist das Wort verbraucht, sein Inhalt leer und fad,
    so wird es nie mehr Ansporn sein zur Tat.
    Wir stehn verwundert, geben auf und fühlen uns beschämt
    und merken nicht, dass wir doch selbst die Kraft gelähmt.

    Drum wolln wir sorgen, dass Gewohnheit uns nicht trügt,
    wir wollen fragen, bis die Antwort uns genügt,
    wir wollen jedes Wort genau auf seinen Sinn durchschaun
    und nur auf solchem festen Boden sicher baun.
    Heidi Kirmße
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