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Vier gedichten van Lucebert voor Mannenkoor a Capella

By Ignace Lilien

genre
Vocal music
instrumentation
Male choir (TTBB)
year
1961
location of manuscript
www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl archive registration number 009/145.101a+b+c

Details

Four poems by Lucebert for male choir a cappella

Nazomer (Late summer)
Visser van Ma Yuan (Fisherman of Ma Yuan)
Moore
Uiterst klein (Extremely small)

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