Forbidden Music Regained


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Seven Elegies op. 147

By Wilhelm Rettich

genre
Vocal music
instrumentation
Voice and instrument(s) (voice vc pf)
duration
16 minutes
status
published score
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Details

1. Jacqueline
2. Panov
3. Lullaby for Lilly
4. Musicians Elegie
5. Paradise lost Elegie
6. Love's Elegie
7. Paradise regained

Words by Clive D. Greidinger

ISMN: 979-0-2038-0159-7

About Wilhelm Rettich

Wilhelm Rettich

Wilhelm Rettich belonged to that generation of those whose work and life was deeply affected by the First and Second World Wars. Captivity, persecution, hiding and losses scarred his life. In 1933, he emigrated to the Netherlands, where he survived the war in hiding. Rettich worked a great deal for the radio, a young and progressive medium at that time. Although he became a Dutch citizen after the World War II, he returned to Germany in 1964.

by Diet Scholten