Was ist die Welt?

aus: Sonne, Mond und Sterne

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Peter Schindler

Was ist die Welt?

aus: Sonne, Mond und Sterne

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Peter Schindler

Was ist die Welt?

aus: Sonne, Mond und Sterne

  • Instrumentation Mixed Choir (SATB) and Piano
  • Composer Peter Schindler
  • Edition Piano Score
  • Publisher Carus-Verlag
  • Order no. CV09266-10
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Description:

  • Language: German
  • Pages: 8
  • Release: 26.01.2022
  • Term: 3:00
  • Dimensions: 210 x 297 mm
  • Weight: 24 g
  • Genre: Classical Music, Classical Music of the Modern Age
  • Accompaniment: Piano
  • ISMN: 9790007295578
Peter Schindler's full-length secular choral work Sonne, Mond und Sterne (Sun, Moon and Stars) narrates a love story based on 'old' texts which are given a new interpretation through these musical settings. Some individual numbers were published in spring, and now more movements with piano accompaniment are available in print and digitally.

choral work of medium difficulty
will appeal to experienced Brahms Requiem singers as well as ambitious chamber or youth choirs with a gospel, pop or jazz background
cross-over between jazz, chanson, and chamber music

Peter Schindler about Was ist die Welt?:
A strict Allegro ben ritmato symbolises how inexorable the course of the world is. The choir chants the question about what 'Welt' (the world) actually is. Hectic bustle is expressed through a pulsing basic motif. This is repeated constantly and moves through the parts. A lyrical B flat minor in the central section allows us to float like shadows on the way into a dream.

The song text is a collage. The first verse, by the Baroque poet Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, is concerned with the vanitas motif: the world, and everything which seems beautiful to us, is ephemeral. The second and third verses were written in the 18th century by Johann Gottfried Herder. Here, the poet expounds the view that real life does not take place in the world and that people's mathematical abilities are insufficient to measure space and time.