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Шаблон:Italic title Шаблон:Infobox musical composition Alban Berg's Five Orchestral Songs after Postcards by Peter Altenberg (German: Fünf Orchesterlieder nach Ansichtskarten von Peter Altenberg), Op. 4, were composed in 1911 and 1912 for medium voice, or mezzo-soprano. They are considered a true song cycle, unlike his previous two groups of songs, the Sieben frühe Lieder of 1908 and the Vier Gesänge, Op. 2, of 1910, and they are his first work for orchestra. The postcard texts by contemporary Viennese poet Peter Altenberg recount the stormy but beautiful condition of the soul and the palpable sensations of love and longing. The highly imaginative music responds with many displaced ostinati and a conflicted, lyrical passion.

When two of the songs (Numbers 2 and 3) were performed for the first time – on 31 March 1913 under the baton of Berg's teacher Schönberg in Vienna's Musikverein[1] – members of the audience were so taken aback as to erupt in a famous riot, wounding the composer's feelings so deeply that he never again sought a performance for them.

Structure

The songs are:[2]

  1. Шаблон:Lang (Soul, how much more beautiful are you)
  2. Шаблон:Lang (Did you see the forest after the rainstorm?)
  3. Шаблон:Lang (Beyond the boundaries of the universe)
  4. Шаблон:Lang (Nothing has come)
  5. Шаблон:Lang (Here is peace)

Instrumentation

The work is scored for medium voice (mezzo-soprano) and a large orchestra consisting of:[2] Шаблон:Col-begin Шаблон:Col-2

Woodwinds
3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo)
3 oboes (3rd doubling English horn)
3 clarinets in BШаблон:Music (3rd doubling [[E-flat clarinet|clarinet in EШаблон:Music]])
1 bass clarinet in BШаблон:Music
3 bassoons (3rd doubling contrabassoon)
Brass
4 horns in F
3 trumpets in F
4 trombones (1st doubling alto trombone)
1 tuba (doubling contrabass tuba)
Percussion
timpani
4 players playing glockenspiel, xylophone, triangle, cymbals, tam-tam, side drum, and bass drum
Keyboard
2 players sharing celesta, piano and harmonium
Strings
violins I, II
violas
celli
double basses
harp

Шаблон:Col-end

References

Шаблон:Reflist

External links

Шаблон:Alban Berg Шаблон:Second Viennese School Шаблон:Portal bar Шаблон:Authority control