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

Work Details
Year of composition: 1928
Subtitle: Kleine Kantate
Scored for: for tenor, baritone, male choir (or 3 male voices) and orchestra
Composer: Kurt Weill
Edited by: David Drew
Text Author: Bertolt Brecht
Choir: TBarB
Soloinstruments/Soloists: tenor, baritone
Instrumentation: 0 0 2 2 - 2 2 2 0 - timp, org, alto sax(2), guit, bjo
Instrumentation details: 1st clarinet in Bb; 2nd clarinet in Bb; 1st alto saxophone in Eb; 2nd alto saxophone in Eb (+t.sax(Bb)); 1st bassoon; 2nd bassoon; 1st horn in F; 2nd horn in F; 1st trumpet in Bb; 2nd trumpet in Bb; 1st trombone (+bass tuba); 2nd trombone; timpani; percussion; organ (or harm); guitar; bjo;
Table of Contents: Großer Dankchoral: Lobet die Nacht; Ballade vom ertrunkenen Mädchen: Als sie ertrunken war und hinunterschwamm; Marterl: hier ruht die Jungfrau Johanna Beck; Erster Bericht über den unbekannten Soldaten: Wir kamen von den Bergen; Zweiter Bericht über den unbekannten Soldaten: Alles, was ich euch sagte; Großer Dankchoral (da capo)
Duration (min): 21
Dedication: dem Frankfurter Sender gewidmet
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World Première
Location: Frankfurt am Main / Germany
Date: 22.05.1929
Conductor: Rottenberg Ludwig
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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