Othmar Schoeck
Notturno
Duration: 45'
Gesangstext: Nikolaus Lenau, Gottfried Keller
Solos:
tiefe Stimme
Instrumentation details:
violin I
violin II
viola
violoncello
contrabass
Schoeck - Notturno for low voice and string orchestra
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Othmar Schoeck
Schoeck: Notturno - op. 47Orchestration: für tiefe Stimme und Streichorchester
Type: Partitur
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Work introduction
In his 45-minute work for low voice and string quartet or string orchestra, the Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck set to music poems of mourning, loneliness and despair by Nikolaus Lenau, as well as a fragment by Gottfried Keller. Schoeck chose the title Notturno for a reason: it matches the dark underlying character of the music which, with or without vocal parts (the first, extended movement has a long instrumental part), expresses the pain, the lamentation and the resignation of the narrator in a late-romantic style.