Louis Gruenberg
Animals and Insects
Gesangstext: Vachel Lindsay
Übersetzer: Rudolf Stephan Hoffmann
Solos:
medium voice
Instrumentation details:
piano
Gruenberg - Animals and Insects for medium voice and piano
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Louis Gruenberg
Gruenberg: Animals and Insects for medium voice and piano - op. 22
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Orchestration: for medium voice and piano
Type: Noten
Language: Deutsch | Englisch
Work introduction
Louis Gruenberg (1884–1964) emigrated with his parents to the USA as early as 1885. In the early 1920s he continued his studies with Ferruccio Busoni in Berlin, who also encouraged him to compose. In the late 1930s Gruenberg moved to Hollywood, where he became a successful film score composer. The song collection Animals and Insects was written in the early 1920s and has now been republished. However, its tonal language was too advanced for the American taste in music at the time. He adopted the humorous, folksy singing tone of the poems by Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931), sometimes giving them popular, cabaret-style rhythms and sometimes using them in a more abstract way.