Rosamunda Song

[Theodora Andy]

RosamundeFrstin von Zypern (Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus) is a play by Helmina von Chzy, which is primarily remembered for the incidental music which Franz Schubert composed for it. Music and play premiered in Vienna's Theater an der Wien on 20 December 1823.[1][2]

The text version of Chzy's original play, in four acts, as premiered with Schubert's music, is lost.[3] However, a later modified version of the play, in five acts, was discovered in the State Library of Wrttemberg, and was published in 1996.[4] Fragmentary autograph sources relating to the first version of the play have been recovered, too.[5]

The story concerns the attempt of Rosamunde, who was brought up incognito as a shepherdess by the mariner's widow Axa, to reclaim her throne. The long-established governor Fulgentius (Fulvio in the revised version), who already has Rosamunde's parents on his conscience, attempts to thwart Rosamunde, initially by intrigue, then by a marriage proposal and finally by an attempt at poisoning. Rosamunde, whose claim is backed by a deed in her father's hand, enjoys the support of Cypriots and the Cretan Prince Alfonso, her intended husband. Finally, all the attempts of Fulgentius fail; he dies by his own poison, and Rosamunde ascends the throne.[6]

No. 3b was published in 1824 as Op. 26, in a version with piano accompaniment. Nos. 8, 4 and 7 were possibly first published in the same series. Other publications with one or more numbers followed. By 1867 all numbers except 3a and 6 had been published in one or more versions.[2]

It was not until Series XV, Volume 4 of the Breitkopf & Hrtel Gesammtausgabe was published in 1891 that all the numbers of the incidental music were joined in one publication, with the full orchestration.[2]

Excerpts from the Rosamunde music are frequently performed, and are some of Schubert's most performed pieces. They have been recorded several times, including versions conducted by Kurt Masur and Claudio Abbado.

The complete score, which lasts an hour, is seldom heard. In one rare performance, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, directed by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, performed the full score at the Styriarte festival in Graz, Austria, in June 2004. The Arnold Schoenberg Choir sang the vocal parts with soloists Elisabeth von Magnus and Florian Boesch.

The Overture was used for a ballet sequence in the 1952 Samuel Goldwyn film Hans Christian Andersen, starring Danny Kaye.[10] The ballet sequence was danced by Zizi Jeanmaire.[citation needed] A fragment of Entr'acte #2 was used in many episodes of Wings of the Red Star. Another excerpt was incorporated into the Christmas carol Mille cherubini in coro, a song made popular by Luciano Pavarotti in a 1980 TV Christmas programme.[11]

It was claimed many times that the song was written in the country where it had just become a hit. TIME wrote that "Germans insisted it was an old Bavarian drinking song. Americans and British thought it was one of their own. Anyhow, they all sang it."[11] Its actual composer was not widely known until after the war.[4]

I am talking about Rosamunde because this week we're listening to one of the best-known fragments, the Romanze, which would be the first orchestral Lied in history, if it weren't for the fact that, as we've seen, it wasn't intended to be a Lied. But Schubert himself wrote a piano accompaniment and the piece became part of the Art Song repertoire as Romanze aus "Rosamunde", D. 797/3b. Rosamunde is, as the title says, the princess of Cyprus; In order to protect her life, his father, before being murdered, asks a couple of shephers to take care of her as their daughter. When she turns eighteen, Rosamunde knows the truth about his origins and claims the throne, which she finally obtains in spite of Fulgentius, the villain in this story. At some point in the play, Rosamunde returns to the place where she grew up; that's when her adoptive mother, Axa, sings this nocturne.

This beautiful song, that we're listening performed by Ilker Arcayrek and Simon Lepper, will be performed by Katharina Konradi and Eric Schneider next Friday in Barcelona; as always, I'm adding here the songs of the programme we've heard so far in Liederabend, just in case you would like to review them.

For most music enthusiasts, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) is best known as a composer of songs, chamber music and orchestral works. But he also wrote several sacred and dramatic stage-works, and all throughout his tragically short life he strove indefatigably to be a success in the latter genre. Alas, this was not to be. Out of the ten or so pieces that he produced, intrigues and other adverse elements prevented all but three of them to be performed during his lifetime.

One of these was "Rosamunde", a four-act drama after a libretto by Helmina von Chezy. The text of the version Schubert used is now lost, but luckily the music has survived, despite the huge failure of the premire, which was held on the 20th of December 1823 at the Theater an der Wien. Indeed, the work was removed from the programme the very next day, but despite this colossal flop, Schubert's melodies are so captivating that they have endured the test of time.

The music also includes three entr'acte pieces, one of which became the central theme of the Quartet in A minor and other works. In these new contexts, Schubert's inspirations cease to reflect outside conflicts, and now only serve to project emotional states and feelings. #more rigidity, but sublime poetry in its own right.

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A song composed by the Czech songwriter Jaromr Vejvoda and later enriched with text by Vašek Zeman made it all around the world. In fact, it's so ubiquitous that in just the Three Seas countries, each has its own special name for this simple Czech folk song.

Schubert had a lovely singing voice as a boy and was selected to be a chorister in the Imperial Court Chapel Choir. This position also came with a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school for children who were not from aristocratic families. When he was a young chorister, Schubert began studying with the celebrated composer Antonio Salieri. When Schubert had to leave the choir because his voice broke, Salieri continued to teach him.

Schubert reluctantly trained to be a teacher, like his father, and began working as a schoolmaster at age 17. Schubert was already a committed composer and he was very productive in his free time. By the time he left his teaching job to pursue composition full-time at age 21, Schubert had already composed five symphonies, a full-length opera, several full-length masses, many string quartets and over 140 songs or lieder, the German word for songs.

Rosamunde, D797 is a collection of works arranged from incidental music written by Schubert for the play Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus by Helmina von Chzy. The play premiered in Vienna in December 1823.

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One possible candidate would be Adam Wysocki, a tenor who also graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory and is frequently cited as a copyist by members of the Auschwitz I orchestra (Figure 11). In addition to having a degree in music theory, he was a member of the popular ensemble the Dana Choir, who recorded and appeared in films.[16] Here is a short recording of Wysocki from 1935:

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