Der bereits legendäre Chordirigent der Avantgarde wird 80 Jahre alt: Clytus Gottwald, Gründer und langjähriger Dirigent der Schola Cantorum Stuttgart. Ebenso bekannt wie gern gesungen sind inzwischen...
Lately, the 'choir pope' Clytus Gottwald has increasingly arranged late Romantic repertoire pieces for a cappella choir. He said: 'The idea to make music from around the turn of the 19th to the 20th c...
He was regarded as the German hope among the composers of his generation and as 'next man of New Music', but his early death quashed all such hopes of the music scene: Rudi Stephan died at the early a...
During the summers of 1901 and 1902, Gustav Mahler set five poems by the German Romantic poet Friedrich Rückert to music. The third of these, Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (I am lost to the world...
Drawn from the text of Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth’s Magic Horn), the title of this song translates to 'Three angels sang a sweet air,' and tells the remorseful story of the sinful apostle Peter....
Translated as 'at midnight,' this song was written in the summer of 1901 in Maiernigg am Wörthersee, Austria, where Mahler spent his vacations while working as director of the Vienna Court Opera. Acco...
