Richard Strauss / Clytus Gottwald (arr.): Three Songs. Vocal transcriptions by Clytus Gottwald - Sheet music | Carus-Verlag

Richard Strauss / Clytus Gottwald (arr.) Three Songs. Vocal transcriptions by Clytus Gottwald

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For almost 30 years the conductor and musicologist Clytus Gottwald has made transcriptions of songs and instrumental pieces for unaccompanied choir by a wide variety of different composers, which have been performed throughout the world with huge success. Richard Strauss left a wealth of wonderfully sensitive and subtle songs from all decades of his compositional output, many of them written specifically for his wife, the singer Pauline Strauss-de Ahna.
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  • Serenade
  • Wrapped in a dark veil
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  • Unbenanntes Dokument Ständchen

    Mach auf, mach auf, doch leise, mein Kind,
    um keinen vom Schlummer zu wecken,
    kaum murmelt der Bach, kaum zittert im Wind
    ein Blatt an den Büschen und Hecken.
    Drum leise, mein Mädchen, dass nichts sich regt,
    nur leise die Hand auf die Klinke gelegt.

    Mit Tritten, wie Tritte der Elfen so sacht,
    um über die Blumen zu hüpfen,
    flieg leicht hinaus in die Mondscheinnacht,
    zu mir in den Garten zu schlüpfen.
    Rings schlummern die Blüten am rieselnden Bach
    und duften im Schlaf, nur die Liebe ist wach.

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  • Unbenanntes Dokument Serenade

    Open now, open now, but softly my child,
    that no one awakes from their slumber;
    the brook hardly murmurs, the wind hardly shakes
    a leaf on the bush or the hedges.
    So softly, my maiden, that nothing be stirred,
    just lay your hand lightly on the knob of the door.

    With steps, with elfin steps so gentlly,
    to skip through the flowers,
    fly lightly out into the moonlit night,
    slip into the garden to me.
    Blossoms slumber ’round the babbling brook,
    and are fragrant in their sleep, only love is awake.

    ...

  • Unbenanntes Dokument Sérénade

    Ouvre-moi, ouvre-moi sans bruit, ma douce,
    que personne ne s’éveille,
    le ruisseau murmure à peine, pas une feuille
    ne tremble au vent par les haies et les bosquets.
    Alors tout doux, ma belle, que rien ne bouge,
    sauf ta main légère sur la poignée.

    D’un pas aussi céleste que celui des elfes,
    survolant les fleurs,
    traverse cette nuit de clair de lune,
    pour me rejoindre au jardin.
    Les fleurs bercées au son du ruisseau
    embaument dans leur sommeil,

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  • The son of musician Franz Joseph Strauss and his wife Josephine began composing at the age of six, and by his 18th birthday he had already written around 140 pieces, including almost 60 songs and over 40 piano works. His stellar career began in 1881 with his opus 1, the Festive March for large orchestra. In 1886, Strauss took up a position as third conductor at the Court Opera in his hometown of Munich. There he had time to deepen his repertoire. In the following four years, he composed numerous songs, including Ständchen op. 17,2, which was published by Carus-Verlag together with Von dunklem Schleier umsponnen op. 17,4 and Nicht im Schlafe hab ich das geträumt op. 48,1. In 1905 and many song compositions later, the already celebrated Richard Strauss also wrote a success story with an opera. The opera adaptation of Oscar Wild's Salome, whose text Strauss himself translated into German, is regarded by his fans as the epitome of modern opera music. Personal details
  • The choral conductor, composer and musicologist Clytus Gottwald (1925 - 2023) made significant contributions to contemporary choral music. As editor for New Music at Südfunk Stuttgart and founder and director of the Schola Cantorum Stuttgart, he was in productive exchange with his contemporaries, Pierre Boulez, Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti, Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen and many others. With his Schola Cantorum, a 16-voice chamber vocal ensemble, Gottwald decisively shaped the a cappella choral culture of the highest technical level that is taken for granted today. Clytus Gottwald's transcriptions of piano songs and instrumental pieces for unaccompanied choir are appreciated by choirs all over the world. Modelled on the style of Ligeti, his works set the highest of musical standards. Clytus Gottwald has received several awards for his services, including the Cultural Prize of Baden-Württemberg in 2009, the European Church Music Prize in 2012, and the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2014. His importance for the development of contemporary choral music cannot be overestimated. Personal details

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