Songs on Texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Voice & Piano)
Fibich, Zdenek
Fibich Songs on Texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Voice & Piano)
The Czech composer Zdeněk Fibich (1850–1900) had a keen interest in classical German literature. It therefore comes as no surprise that he had already set songs to texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe while still a student at the Leipzig Conservatory.
Between 1865 and 1871 he composed 16 songs on texts by this famous German author for voice and piano. Ten of them have survived: the song “An den Mond”, dating from 1869, and nine further songs from Goethe’s novel “Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre” were composed immediately after Fibich’s return to Prague in 1871. All ten now appear here in a single-volume Urtext edition edited by Barbora Kubečková.
- First scholarly-critical edition of Fibich’s Goethe songs
- Text translations of the original German poems (Cz/Eng)
- Foreword (Cz/Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentary (Eng) by the editor
Contents
- An den Mond Hud. 116 [Fibich, Zdenek]
- Aus Goethes Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahren Hud. 134 [Fibich, Zdenek]
- I. Lied der Mignon. Heiß mich nicht reden [Fibich, Zdenek]
- iI. Mignon. Kennst du das Land [Fibich, Zdenek]
- III. Lied der Mignon. Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt [Fibich, Zdenek]
- IV. Lied des Harfners. An die Türen will ich schleichen [Fibich, Zdenek]
- V. Lied des Harfners. Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen ass [Fibich, Zdenek]
- VI. Philinens Lied. Singet nicht in Trauertönen [Fibich, Zdenek]
- VII. Lied der Mignon. So lasst mich scheinen [Fibich, Zdenek]
- VIII. Des Harfners Ballade. Was hör' ich draussen vor dem Tor? [Fibich, Zdenek]
- IX. Lied des Harfners. Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt [Fibich, Zdenek]