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Walter Braunfels
Braunfels: Te Deum - op. 32, für Sopran, Tenor, gemischten Chor, Orchester und Orgel
UE7072
Type: Dirigierpartitur
Format: 250 x 340 mm
Pages: 206
Description
Daily encounters with the horrors of war (Braunfels served in the army during World War I) led the composer to convert to Catholicism. The Te Deum was composed as a “token of gratitude” for his conversion. It received its first performance at the Gürzenich in Cologne in 1922 under Hermann Abendroth. The Rheinische Musik- und Theaterzeitung declared the event to be “the greatest success ever enjoyed by a world premiere in Cologne.”
In the 1920s, the Te Deum received as many as 110 performances before the Nazis banned Braunfels’ music from the stage and from concert programmes. After the war, the work was put on in 1952 in Cologne under Günter Wand – the last time the composer heard his work. He died two years later and it was not until 2002 that the Te Deum was performed again.
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Type: Dirigierpartitur
Format: 250 x 340 mm
Pages: 206