Miklos Rózsa
To Everything There Is a Season op. 21
Motette
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Miklos Rózsa
To Everything There Is a Season op. 21
Motette
- Instrumentation Mixed Choir
- Optional Instrumentation Mixed Choir and Organ
- Composer Miklos Rózsa
- Edition Choral Score
- Publisher Breitkopf & Härtel KG
- Order no. CHB5401
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Description:
The fact that Miklós Rózsa wrote choral works in addition to film scores, orchestral works and chamber music is only known to a few people today. The best known is the motet "To Everything There Is a Season" op. 21 for mixed choir on a text from chapter 3 of the Book of Ecclesiastes. Rózsa chose this in 1945 as a reaction to the imminent end of the Second World War and added a joyful "Alleluia" to the last verse "A time for war, and a time for peace". Three years later, the piece was premiered by the choir of the First Methodist Church of Hollywood and was published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1951. The motet, which is around fifteen minutes long, requires a large and powerful choir due to the up to threefold divided voices and dynamic indications up to a fourfold forte. Rózsa interprets the various "times" vividly and expressively, particularly in terms of articulation and harmony. An organ accompaniment is set ad lib. to support the choir. The motet "The Vanities of Life" op. 30, composed later, is stylistically similar and was conceived by Rózsa for joint performances with this motet.