César Franck The Seven Words

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Unlike the well-known settings of the "Seven Last Words" by Schütz or Haydn, in his opulently scored composition Franck provides commentary to the words of Jesus with excerpts from the Old and New Testaments as well as from portions of the "Stabat Mater". In his transposition of the Latin text into music Franck reveals a rich palette of compositional parameters: “different-sized ensembles, exciting orchestration, formal variety and sophisticated harmony. Laments, simple passages for the choir in unison, passages with great drama, melodic shapes filled with sweetness convey to the listener a multi-layered impression of a composition stamped by a strongly personal will to expression.“ Württembergische Blätter für Kirchenmusik 1/1991

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César Franck
| 1822-1890

César Franck (1822–1890), a native of Liège, Belgium, studied in Paris and was active there at the Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Church of Sainte-Clotilde from 1859 until his death. In 1871 he was a co-founder of the “Société nationale de Musique”, later becoming its president. In 1872 he was appointed professor of organ at the Paris Conservatoire. His students included well-known personalities from French music history such as Ernest Chausson, Vincent d’Indy, Gabriel Pierné, Charles Tournemire, Louis Vierne and also, for a short while, Claude Debussy. In early July 1890 Franck had an accident with a horse-drawn omnibus, from the consequences of which he never recovered. He died on 8 November. Franck’s successors at Sainte-Clotilde were G. Pierné and (from 1898) Ch. Tournemire, one of Olivier Messiaen’s teachers. Personal details

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Wolfgang Hochstein
| 1950

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Im ausführlichen und sehr informativen Vorwort des Herausgebers Wolfgang Hochstein erfährt der interessierte Musiker und Dirigent viele wichtige Details über Cesar Francks bis heute völlig unbekanntes Werk. Als 37jähriger schrieb Franck das Werk ... Zur musikalischen Gestaltung: Es überwiegen langsame Tempi, B- und Molltonarten. Innerhalb dieses Rahmens strebt Franck nach größtmöglicher musikalischer Vielfalt und Abwechslung: unterschiedliche Besetzungen, reizvolle Instrumentationen, formale Abwechslung und differenzierte Harmonik. Klagegesänge, schlichte Choraliter-Passagen, Abschnitte größter Dramatik, melodische Gestaltungen voller Süße vermitteln dem Hörer einen vielschichtigen Eindruck einer von starkem persönlichem Ausdruckswillen geprägten Komposition, die ihn unmittelbar anspricht. Insgesamt eine Schatzhebung aus dem Bereich der romantischen Oratoriums- bzw. Kantatenliteratur, die weite Verbreitung verdient, obwohl sie durch die große Orchesterbesetzung nicht ganz unaufwendig zu realisieren ist.
Württembergische Blätter für Kirchenmusik, 1/1991

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