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Sechs Gedichte von R.M. Rilke

By Ignace Lilien

genre
Vocal music
instrumentation
Voice and piano (low/medium pf)
year
1922
location of manuscript
www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl archive registration number 009/146.01
status
published score
www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl catalogue application number MNmfI/0548

Details

Six poems by R.M. Rilke for low or middle voice and piano

1. Herbst
2. Vor lauter Lauschen
3. Die Nacht des Zweifels
4. Wiener Walzer
5. In Weinblattdämmer
6. O wenn mein Herz

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