Description
Elisabeth von Herzogenberg
Instrumentation: voice and piano
Edition: score
Editor: Christoph Jakobi
Year of composition: 1867; 1885
Difficulty: medium difficulty
Lyricist: Ludwig Uhland
List price: 9,90 €
Elisabeth von Herzogenberg: Lieder
The new song edition of Elisabeth Herzogenberg comprises the two songs „Selbst die Bäume weinen“ (1867) and „Nachklang“ (1885).
The song ‘Selbst die Bäume weinen’ (Even the tress are crying) was first performed on 15.5.2010 in Heiden (Switzerland) at Schumann-Herzogenberg-Tage 2010 by Christoph Jakobi (piano) und Muriel Schwarz (soprano).
“Selbst die Bäume weinen” is published here for the first time, along with Nachklang, mentioned previously. Both works contain the same melodiousness, although the song composed in 1885 is composed in a more sophisticated style, thus showing the form of the Herzogenberg School. Elisabeth von Herzogenberg can be considered a true musician and artist in her own right, given her extensive work supporting and advising in the music scene, as portrayed in detail by Antje Ruhbaum in her dissertation Elisabeth von Herzogenberg: Salon – Mäzenatentum – Musikförderung.
The manuscript, signed “Elisabeth Stockhausen 1867”, is, as far as is known today, her only signed manuscript, and was preserved only by chance.7 It is in fact the work that the English composer Ethel Smyth, one of Herzogenberg’s composition pupils, wrote of in her memoires.
