La Passione
Canto religioso op. 21, 1939
The German-Italian composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (a pupil of Josef Rheinberger) enjoyed great success with his comic operas at the beginning of the 20th century. His early work Die neugierigen Frauen (Inquisitive Women), which premiered in Munich in 1903, was later performed under Toscanini at New York’s Met. One of Wolf-Ferrari’s rare smaller choral works is the short religious song La Passione op. 21, featuring a traditional Tuscan text similar to those sung at Passion processions.
Mary is looking for her son. Her dialog partner reports that he saw him on the Way of the Cross. Simple yet with great intensity and densely chromatic, Wolf-Ferrari impressively portrays the pain of the mother and her son. An exciting new discovery for Passion concerts.
The song is available in two versions by the composer: For SATBB choir (Carus 6.511/00) and for SAM choir and piano (Carus 6.511/50), both in print and digital versions.
You can read the Preface and the Critical Report free of charge:
https://www.carusmedia.com/images-intern/medien/download/0651100/0651118.pdf
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Composer
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
| 1876-1948Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari was born in Venice in 1876. He studied in Rome (1891–92) and Munich (1892–95), where he was a pupil of Joseph Rheinberger. In Munich, he celebrated his greatest successes in the years before the outbreak of the First World War, mainly with his compositions of comic operas. After the First World War, he was unable to build on his pre-war successes, perhaps because his music, written in a late or post-Romantic style, had no connection to the contemporary musical language of modernism. Personal details
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Editor
Barbara Mohn
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