An die Hoffnung

für Singstimme und Orchester

nach dem gleichnamigen Lied von Ludwig van Beethoven (op. 94)

voice and orchestra

Edition: Score and parts

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Ludwig van Beethoven composed two settings of Christoph August Tiedge’s Urania: the first in his early phase and a second during his late compositional period.

The later version, Op. 94, forms the core of my eponymous orchestral work as well as the middle section of my An die Hoffnung, in which I have retained Beethoven’s original vocal line alongside some of his harmonic lied material.

This orchestral work shares its instrumentation with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. The agitated, rhythmically driven composition begins with an orchestral landscape characterised by minor thirds, expanding orchestrally on Beethoven’s fragile motif of ‘hope’ and culminating in a questioning veil of tender clusters, interweaving Tiedge’s final lines: ‘whether an angel waiting above will count my tears.’ Christian Jost

Orchestral Cast

Picc. · 2 · 2 · 2 · 2 · Kfg. - 4 (2 Hr. in D und 2 Basshr. in B) · 2 · 3 · 0 - P. - Str.

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Title:

An die Hoffnung

für Singstimme und Orchester

nach dem gleichnamigen Lied von Ludwig van Beethoven (op. 94)

Text von Christoph August Tiedge

Language:

German

Edition:

Score and parts

Publisher/Label:

Schott Music

Year of composition:

2016

Duration:

20 ′

World Premiere:

August 19, 2016 · Grafenegg (A)
Wolkenturm
Grafenegg Festival 2016
Klaus Florian Vogt, Tenor · Conductor: Yutaka Sado · Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich

Commissioned work :

Auftragswerk des Grafenegg Festivals in Co-Commission mit der Philharmonie Luxembourg & Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg und des Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchesters Berlin