Das edle Herz | |
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Secular choral work by Anton Bruckner | |
Ceiling of the library of the St. Florian Abbey | |
Key | A major |
Catalogue | WAB 65 |
Text | Ernst Marinelli |
Language | German |
Composed | c. 1851 : St. Florian |
Dedication | Name day of Johann Nepomuk Paulitsch |
Published | 1932 Regensburg : |
Vocal | TTBB choir |
Das edle Herz ("The noble heart"), WAB 65, is a song composed by Anton Bruckner in c. 1851 during his stay in St. Florian.
History
[edit]Bruckner composed this work on a text of Ernst Marinelli in c. 1851 during his stay in St. Florian. He composed it for the name day of Johann Nepomuk Paulitsch, a member of the St. Florian choir. It is not known whether the work was performed during Bruckner's life.[1][2]
The original manuscript, which became in-between lost, was found in the legacy of Bruckner's friend Rudolf Weinwurm.[1] A sketch of it is archived at the Abbey of St. Florian.[2] It was performed in 1988 by the Wagner Society Male Choir, Keio University, Tokyo,[3] and, thereafter, in 1994 in the Connecticut College.[2]
The work, which was first issued in Band II/2, pp. 111–113, of the Göllerich/Auer biography,[1][2] is issued in Band XXIII/2, No. 7 of the Gesamtausgabe.[4]
Bruckner composed a second setting on the same text for mixed choir (WAB 66) in 1857.[1][2]
Text
[edit]Das edle Herz uses a text by Ernst Marinelli.
Wer im Busen nicht die Flamme |
Whoever feeds in his chest not only the flame |
Music
[edit]The 46-bar long work in 9
8 is scored in A major for TTBB choir. From bar 34, the score goes over in 4
4 in chorale form on "dankerfüllter Seelenpreis" until the end of the song.[1][2]
Discography
[edit]There is as yet no commercial recording of this first setting of Das edle Herz.
References
[edit]Sources
[edit]- August Göllerich, Anton Bruckner. Ein Lebens- und Schaffens-Bild, c. 1922 – posthumous edited by Max Auer by G. Bosse, Regensburg, 1932
- Anton Bruckner – Sämtliche Werke, Band XXIII/2: Weltliche Chorwerke (1843–1893), Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag der Internationalen Bruckner-Gesellschaft, Angela Pachovsky and Anton Reinthaler (Editor), Vienna, 1989
- Cornelis van Zwol, Anton Bruckner 1824–1896 – Leven en werken, uitg. Thoth, Bussum, Netherlands, 2012. ISBN 978-90-6868-590-9
- Uwe Harten, Anton Bruckner. Ein Handbuch. Residenz Verlag , Salzburg, 1996. ISBN 3-7017-1030-9.
External links
[edit]- Das edle Herz, WAB 65: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
- Das edle Herz A-Dur, WAB 65 – Critical discography by Hans Roelofs (in German)
- The performance of Das edle Herz, WAB 65 by the Wagner Society Male Choir of Japan, 11 December 1988, can be heard on YouTube: Das edle Herz, WAB 65