Songs
Bei dir ist es traut
(1910)
Part of a series or song cycle:
Fünf Lieder (Mahler, Alma)
Bei dir ist es traut
I feel warm and close with you
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Composer
Alma Maria Mahler Gropius Werfel (born Alma Margaretha Maria Schindler; 31 August 1879 – 11 December 1964) was a Viennese-born composer, author, editor and socialite. She composed at least 17 songs for voice and piano. She was married to Gustav Mahler.
Read her full Wikipedia article here.
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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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Read some of Rilke's work here, on Poetry Foundation.
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Previously performed at:
- 05 Apr 2019: Katarina Karnéus & Julius Drake
- 28 Oct 2017: Mastercourse Concert
- 26 Oct 2017: Mahler, Berg, Korngold & Strauss: Angelika Kirchschlager & Julius Drake
- 20 Oct 2017: Mahler, Korngold & Zemlinsky: Sarah Connolly & Eugene Asti
(As part of a song cycle/series:)
- 23 Oct 2017: Mastercourse Day One
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