Songs
Traumgekrönt
(1907)
Part of a series or song cycle:
Sieben frühe Lieder
Traumgekrönt
Crowned with dreams
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Composer
Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His circle included the musicians Alexander von Zemlinsky and Franz Schreker, the painter Gustav Klimt, the writer and satirist Karl Kraus, the architect Adolf Loos, and the poet Peter Altenberg.
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Poet
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. He is "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets".He wrote both verse and highly lyrical prose. Several critics have described Rilke's work as inherently "mystical". His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry and several volumes of correspondence in which he invokes haunting images that focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude and profound anxiety. These deeply existential themes tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist writers.
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Previously performed at:
(As part of a song cycle/series:)
- 29 Mar 2020: Schumann, Mahler & Berg: Christina Gansch & Sholto Kynoch
- 05 Apr 2019: Katarina Karnéus & Julius Drake
- 20 Oct 2017: The End of Romanticism: Caitlin Hulcup & Lada Valesová