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Berceuse (voor volwassenen)

By Ignace Lilien

genre
Vocal music
instrumentation
Voice and piano (sopr/ten pf)
year
1939
location of manuscript
www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl archive registration number 009/166

Details

Berceuse (for grown-ups) for soprano or tenor and piano

Words by Paul van Ostaijen

(The berceuse “for children” is part of ‘Kinderliedjes op teksten van Paul van Ostaijen’)

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