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Vier Lieder vom Gott der Bettler (voice and orchestra)

By Ignace Lilien

genre
Vocal music
instrumentation
Voice and orchestra (voice orch)
year
1923
location of manuscript
www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl archive registration number 009/024a+b
status
published score
www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl catalogue application number NMI 20501
dedication

Dedicated to Pola Szembek (1) Kitty Nelken (2) Han Ribbius (3) and Toos Dulberg-Heijnsbroek (4)

Details

Quatre chansons des mendiants (Four beggar songs)

Text in French and German

- La femme à l'accordéon / Die Leierfrau (the ‘gurdy women’)
- L'aveugle / Der Blinde (the blind)
- Le paralytique / Der Gelähmte (the crippled)
- Le lépreux / Der Aussätzige (the leper)

There is a version for voice and piano as well (with text in German only)

See also: www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl catalogue application number MNmfI/0547

About Ignace Lilien

Ignace Lilien

His hometown Lemberg, in the Ukraine known as Lviv, and in Poland as Lwów, has a history of occupation by shifting powers. This is why the Germans had trouble figuring out Ignace Lilien's real identity; he survived the war with forged documents. He worked as a chemical engineer, but that didn’t stop him from composing a large oeuvre. His life was as varied as his music, with influences ranging from Polish modernism to South American rhythms and timbres.

by Frans van Ruth