Kurt Weill
02.03.1900—03.04.1950

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Kurt Weill
Das Berliner Requiem | for tenor, baritone, male choir (or 3 male voices) and orchestra | alternative version or Lucerne version

Work Details
Year of composition: 1928
Subtitle: Kleine Kantate
Version: alternative version or Lucerne version
Scored for: for tenor, baritone, male choir (or 3 male voices) and orchestra
Composer: Kurt Weill
Edited by: David Drew
Text Author: Bertolt Brecht; Kurt Weill
Table of Contents: Ballade vom ertrunkenen Mädchen; Epitaph: Die rote Rosa; Erster Bericht über den unbekannten Soldaten unter dem Triumphbogen; Zweiter Bericht über den unbekannten Soldaten: Alles, was ich euch sagte; Zu Potsdam unter den Eichen; Großer Dankchoral: Lobet die Nacht
Remarks: The alternative version („Lucerne version“) may be performed by solo tenor, baritone and bass with wind ensemble and no chorus. In this case, Weill's no. 5 (a cappella chorus) is replaced by Goehr's arrangement.
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Work Introduction

In 1928, the Frankfurter Sender commissioned a new work from Kurt Weill. The result was the Berliner Requiem, based on existing texts from Bertolt Brecht's Hauspostille. Weill was working at the time on the opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, and used the Berliner Requiem as [...]

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