Miklos Rózsa
Die Eitelkeiten des Lebens op. 30
Motette
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Miklos Rózsa
Die Eitelkeiten des Lebens op. 30
Motette
- Instrumentation Mixed Choir
- Optional Instrumentation Mixed Choir and Organ
- Composer Miklos Rózsa
- Edition Choral Score
- Publisher Breitkopf & Härtel KG
- Order no. CHB5402
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Description:
The motet "The Vanities of Life" op. 30 was written by Miklós Rózsa in 1964 as a commission for the Pacific Lutheran University Choir in Tacoma, Washington. The choir performed the work for the first time in the same year, together with the motet "To Everything There Is a Season" op. 21, which was composed in 1945 and is also based on a text from the Book of Ecclesiastes. In the edition published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1967, Rózsa therefore recommends performing it together in concert. The work, which is also around fifteen minutes long, is often divided into two parts and is similar in style and expressivity to the earlier motet. However, Rózsa himself describes it as harmonically more demanding, which is why a powerful choir is also required here. An organ accompaniment is set ad lib. to support the choir, and the edition also contains the German text, which was added later.