Tragödie
composer: Robert Schumann
editor: Bernhard R. Appel
text writer: Heinrich Heine
für Sopran-, Tenorsolo und Orchester
nach der Gesamtausgabe herausgegeben von Bernhard R. Appel
Texte von Heinrich Heine
Orchestra instrumentation: 2 · 2 · 2 · 2 - 2 · 0 · 0 · 0 - P. - Str.
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 5' 0''
Year of composition: 1848
Edition: full score
Language: German
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The three-part piano song Tragödie Op. 64/3 of 1847 was preceded by a version for soprano, tenor and orchestra which, however, Schumann had not been intended for publication. The work created in autumn 1841 with the working title Erster Versuch von Gesangscomposition mit Orchester could not be bought by the Heinrich Heine Institute in Düsseldorf until an auction in London in 1991, after which it could be used for performances.
In Tragödie Schumann set three texts of Heinrich Heine which had been extremely popular among his contemporaries and had been set in the 19th century many times. The best-known example is Drei Volkslieder Op. 41 by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy created shortly before Schumann’s Tragödie. The folksong-like simplicity of these lieder also determines the character of Schumann’s composition.
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