Speakers and piano or orchestra - difficult - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q22787

12 Pieces from the Poem of Rainer Maria Rilke. Composed by Viktor Ullmann. This edition: vocal/piano score. Downloadable, Piano reduction. Duration 25 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q22787. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q22787).

German.

Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke obviously is the last work outlined by Viktor Ullmann in the concentration camp ofTheresienstadt. Other than with the two symphonies developing from the piano sonatas Nos. 5 and 7, Ullmann apparently thought of an orchestral melodrama first, it was only later that the note for recitant and orchestra or piano was added. This version of the work is known to be performed several times in Theresienstadt. Only the first piece had been orchestrated by Ullmann himself, but he had written down the essentials of the orchestration in the hardly decipherable manuscript in great detail. Ullmann chose 12 sections from the prose work by Rainer Maria Rilke, shortening the plot sensibly. Except for the elimination of some sentences which refer to the rose-petal episode and which are incomprehensible without the framework plot, the borrowed texts are unabridged. According to an instruction by Ullmann in the autograph, the text indicated above the staves is only roughly coincident with the music.

3 (3. auch Picc.) · 2 · Engl. Hr. · 2 · Baßklar. · 2 · Kontrafag. – 4 · 2 · 3 · 1 – P. S. (Trgl. · ant. Cymb. · 3 hg. Beck. h/m/t · 3 Tamt. h/m/t · kl. Tr. · Mil.tr. · Rührtr. · gr. Tr. · Glspl. · 1 Röhrengl.) (3 Spieler) – Hfe. · Klav. (auch Cel.) – Str.

Soprano voice and piano - difficult - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q18644

Lyrics by Rainer Maria Rilke. Composed by Aribert Reimann. This edition: Sheet music. Downloadable. Duration 15 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q18644. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q18644).

German • French.

German and French fragments by Rilke from the years 1911 to 1921 form the basis of the text of this composition. Reimann sees Rilke in affinity with Kafka. The tonal language is not lost in dreams, as is often the case in Rilke settings, but dramatic and confrontational, culminating in the percussive hammering of the piano at the text passage: 'with two faces on the two fists'.

Soprano voice and piano - easy to intermediate - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q41951

For soprano and piano. Composed by Aribert Reimann. This edition: Sheet music. Downloadable. Duration 8 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q41951. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q41951).

French.

Das fünfsätzige Werk für Sopran und Klavier nach Gedichtsfragmenten von Rainer Maria Rilke verbindet eine anspruchsvolle Gesangspartie mit teils zurückhaltender, teils zupackender Klavierbegleitung. In französischer Sprache.

Medium voice and piano - advanced - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q22588

Based on a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke. Composed by Bernd Alois Zimmermann. This edition: Sheet music. Downloadable. Duration 4 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q22588. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q22588).

German.

Again and again, there happen to be possibilities to bring early and previously unpublished music by B. A. Zimmermann to light – as is the case with this 'Song of Abelone' on a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke which Zimmermann set to music in 1939. The recording of all songs of the composer is now followed by a printed edition – an interesting insight into the early 'composition workshop' of Zimmermann.

Mixed choir (SATB), flute and piano - advanced - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q21559

Drei weihnachtliche Stimmungsbilder nach Texten von Rainer Maria Rilke und Christian Morgenstern. Composed by Albrecht Haaf. This edition: score. Downloadable, score. Schott Music - Digital #Q21559. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q21559).

German.

Jeweils ein charakteristisches weihnachtliches Sujet steht im Mittelpunkt der Gedichte von Rainer Maria Rilke und Christian Morgenstern, die Albrecht Haaf zur Komposition des dreiteiligen Zyklus „Wunderweiße Nächte inspirierten.

Mezzo-soprano, viola d'amore and harp - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q43313

Cycle based on Rainer Maria Rilke. Composed by Wilfried Hiller. This edition: score and parts. Downloadable, Score and parts. Duration 8 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q43313. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q43313).

German.

In his four-part song cycle, Wilfried Hiller sets various poems by Rainer Maria Rilke to music which were published between 1906 and 1913. Hiller chose the pieces according to their dramatic effect: The content they share is the awareness of topics like loneliness, death and loss; however, neither the texts nor his composition reflect feelings of utter hopelessness. The songs were premiered at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in 2010.

Small Ensemble Bassoon,Harp,Medium Voice - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.918691

Composed by Jenni Brandon. Contemporary. Score and parts. 72 pages. Jenni Brandon Music #6451535. Published by Jenni Brandon Music (A0.918691).

Ahead of All Parting for Mezzo-Soprano, Harp, and Bassoon explores the emotions of life, death, and what lies beyond as told through the lush sounds of the harp and the dark, sonorous qualities of the mezzo-soprano and bassoon. With some simple staging, this dramatic work calls upon the words of Rilke and E.E. Cummings to wrap the audience in the world of the here and beyond. Commissioned by Darrel Hale, bassoon, of Louisiana State University and premiered April 1, 2019.
Single-movement with poems by Rainer Maria Rilke and E.E. Cummings, interpreted and curated by Darrel Hale. Duration approximately 24 minutes

Mezzo-Soprano Voice,Vocal Solo - Level 1 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1450890

By Rainer Maria Rilke. By ?rthvr. 21st Century,A Cappella,Classical,Contemporary. 1 pages. Arthur #1030339. Published by Arthur (A0.1450890).

A setting of the poem Contrée ancienne by R.M. Rilke, for solo voice.
You are free to transpose the score up or down.

Ambitus:
C4 - E5

If you would like to perform the piece publicly (live concert or internet), please contact me.

Here you can find the audio recording of this piece for download:
https://arthvr000.bandcamp.com/album/vocal-music-poetry-settings

Poem text:

Contrée ancienne, aux tours qui insistent
tant que les carillons se souviennent -,
aux regards qui, sans être tristes,
tristement montrent leurs ombres anciennes.

Vignes où tant de forces s’épuisent
lorsqu’un soleil terrible les dore …
Et, au loin, ces espaces qui luisent
comme des avenirs qu’on ignore.

SATB choir unaccompanied - Medium - Digital Download

SKU: MQ.8355-E

Composed by David Evan Thomas. 21st Century. 10 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8355-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8355-E).

English.

Forever Toward You was commissioned by Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in honor of Claire Colliander. The text is a translation of a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) from The Book of Monastic Life. Rilke’s poem speaks of a desire to encounter the Creator—the You in the title of this composition—and of the necessity for doing so through action, not thought alone. The tempo of the music alternates between those ideas of activity (Allegro energico, Buoyant) and reflection (Poco andante, Molto moderat), giving this three minute piece quite a bit of variety and interest. Duration: 3:00.

Mezzo-Soprano Voice,Vocal Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1450892

By Rainer Maria Rilke (poet). By ?rthvr. 21st Century,A Cappella,Chamber,Classical. 1 pages. Arthur #1030341. Published by Arthur (A0.1450892).

A setting of the poem Starker Stern (eng.: Strong Star) by R.M. Rilke, for solo female voice.
You are free to transpose the score up or down.

If you would like to perform the piece publicly (live concert or internet), please contact me.

Here you can find the audio recording of this piece for download:
https://arthvr000.bandcamp.com/album/vocal-music-poetry-settings

Poem text:

Starker Stern, der nicht den Beistand braucht, 
den die Nacht den andern mag gewähren, 
die erst dunkeln muß, daß sie sich klären. 
Stern, der schon vollendet, untertaucht, 

wenn Gestirne ihren Gang beginnen 
durch die langsam aufgetane Nacht. 
Großer Stern der Liebes-Priesterinnen, 
der, von eigenem Gefühl entfacht, 

bis zuletzt verklärt und nie verkohlend, 
niedersinkt, wohin die Sonne sank: 
tausendfachen Aufgang überholend 
mit dem reinen Untergang.

Small Ensemble Choir,High Voice,Low Voice,Medium Voice - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.889727

Composed by William Hawley. Contemporary. Score and parts. 14 pages. William Hawley #4798841. Published by William Hawley (A0.889727).

William Hawley's Drei Momente (Three Moments), for STTTBarB Voices, sets three poems by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) in the original German. The work was composed in 2001 for the vocal ensemble Singer Pur. Score front matter includes English translations by William Hawley. Total duration: 5 minutes. ASCAP https://williamhawley.net.

Men's choir - advanced to difficult - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q7106

Composed by Kurt Bikkembergs. This edition: choral score. Schott Choral Music. Downloadable, Choral score. Duration 3' 20. Schott Music - Digital #Q7106. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q7106).

German.

Eine aparte impressionistische Klangfarbenstudie nach einem wenig bekannten Liebesgedicht von Rainer Maria Rilke. Beeindruckende Konzertliteratur für leistungsfähige Männerchöre.