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Le Cercle Divin (Symphony 2)

By Ignace Lilien

genre
Vocal music
instrumentation
Mixed choir and orchestra (sopr alt ten bas SATB orch)
year
1922
location of manuscript
www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl archive registration number 009/041a 009/042 009/043 009/044

Details

The divine circle (Der Göttliche Kreis) (Il circolo del l'eternita)

Words by Emile Verhaeren (“Le Fléau”, des Campagnes Halucinées) in both French and German

+ piano reduction

See also: www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl catalogue application number 24103

Composed in Delft and IJmuiden

 

 

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