Im Treibhaus. Vocal transcription by Clytus Gottwald
Study for "Tristan and Isolde" 1857/2004
The sophisticated choral arrangements by Clytus Gottwald have found a place in concert life throughout the world. Here Gottwald has arranged two of Richard Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder, “Im Treibhaus” and “Träume”, for 16-voice choir a cappella. In his choral transcriptions Gottwald has transferred to traditional music the compositional techniques from new music which he developed during his long tenure as founder and director of the chamber choir Schola Cantorum. He makes audible the structures of the works he transcribes through the use of a finely differentiated sound.
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Digital text (without sheet music) incl. printing licence, html file, singing text, originalhtml file, singing text, original (Sample)Unbenanntes Dokument Im TreibhausHochgewölbte Blätterkronen, Baldachine von Smaragd,
Kinder ihr aus fernen Zonen, saget mir, warum ihr klagt?
Schweigend neiget ihr die Zweige, malet Zeichen in die Luft
und der Leiden stummer Zeuge, steiget aufwärts süßer Duft.
Weit in sehnendem Verlangen breitet ihr die Arme aus
und umschlinget wahnbefangen öde Leere, nichtgen Graus.
Wohl ich weiß es, arme Pflanze, ein Geschicke teilen wir,
ob umstrahlt von Licht und Glanze, unsre Heimat ist nicht hier!
Und wie froh die Sonne scheidet von des Tages leerem Schein,
hüllet der, der wahrhaft leidet, sich in Schweigens Dunkel ein.
Stille wirds, ein säuselnd Weben füllet bang den dunklen Raum.
Schwere Tropfen seh ich schweben an der Blätter grünem Saum....
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Digital text (without sheet music) incl. printing licence, html file, singing text, english translationhtml file, singing text, english translation (Sample)Unbenanntes Dokument In the greenhouse
High-arched crowns of leaves, emerald canopies,
you children of distant regions, tell me, why do you lament?
Silently you bend the branches, painting symbols in the air,
and of suffering mute witness, sweet fragrance ascending.
In yearning desire you spread wide your arms
and, caught up in delusion, embrace the desolate void, devastating
horror.
Well I know, poor plant, one fate we share,
though illuminated by light and brightness, our home is not here!
And as happily the sun parts the day’s idle lustre,
he, who truly suffers, shrouds himself in the darkness of silence.
It becomes still, a murmur weaving, filling anxiously the dark room....
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Digital text (without sheet music) incl. printing licence, html file, singing text, french translationhtml file, singing text, french translation (Sample)Unbenanntes Dokument Dans la Serre
Hautes voûtes, couronnes de feuillage, baldaquins d’émeraude,
enfants de zones éloignées, dites moi, pourquoi vous plaindre ?
En silence vous penchez vos branches, peignant des signes dans
les airs,
et la peine de témoins muets élève vers les cieux de doux parfums.
En un désir ardent largement vous ouvrez vos bras
et enlacez, ô chimère, un ennuyeux vide d’horreur futile.
Oui, je sais, pauvre plante nous partageons un même destin,
même dans la lumière et l’éclat notre patrie n’est pas ici !
Et comme avec joie le soleil quitte la lumière stérile du jour,
qui souffre vraiment, se drape dans le sombre silence.
Le calme vient, un murmure tremblant remplit inquiet la sombre...
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Composer
Richard Wagner
| 1813-1883Born in 1813 in Leipzig, Richard Wagner grew up in a family very fond of theatre and he himself fell under its spell early. After failure in school and a mainly self-taught musical training (earliest compositions ~ 1830, Symphony in C 1832) 1833 initial employment as choir director in Wurzburg (completion of his first entire opera Die Feen). Start of years as a journeyman: Konigsberg, Riga, Paris, then as a court music director in Dresden, as a fugitive revolutionary in Zurich and finally as a protege of King Ludwig II. in Munich and Bayreuth, death in Venice in 1883. Personal details
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Songwriter / Librettist
Mathilde Wesendonck
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Arranger
Clytus Gottwald
| 1925-2023The 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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