O schöne Nacht! Opus 92, Number 1 A partsong for SATB quartet (or chorus) with piano accompaniment. About the Piece

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1 chö Nacht us 92, Number 1 artsong or quartet (or chorus) with iano accomaniment Music by ohans rahms ( ) Poem by Georg Frieich Daumer ( ) he amount o vocal ensemble music comosed by ohans rahms is oten unestimated In act, vocal comositions comrise more than hal o rahms s comositional outut In addition to his Ein Deutsches Requiem, two sets o Liebeslie Waltzes and motets, rahms wrote several ieces or accomanied quartet o mixed voices Written in 1877, chö Nacht is among the best known In addition to eaturing each voice art, this gorgeous art song contains many o rahms s comositional trademarks: luxurious iano scoring, suerb vocal writing, variation, text ainting, hemiola, dule vs trile rhythms, sensitive marriage o text and music, develoment o small germ motives, even a double inverted canon! I hoe you enoy exloring and interreting this masteriece o the choral reertory -Drew Collins bout the Piece Ranges schö m Himmel märchenhat Erglänzt Mond in seir ganzen Pracht; Um ihn klein ter liebliche Genossenschat Es schimmert hell au am grü-n Halm; mit Macht in Fliebusche schlägt die Nachtigall; Der Knabe seir Lieb-sten sacht- schö he ext Lovely Night! In the sky, magically, the moon shis in all its slendor; around it, the leasant comany o little stars he dew glistens brightly on the green stem; in the lilac bush, the nightengale sings lustily; he youth steals away quietly to his love - lovely night! -translation by Pai/eers (adat DC)

2 chö Nacht rom ier Quartette, 92, No 1 For mixed chorus () with iano accomaniment Georg Frieich Daumer ohans rahms ( ) Perormance edition by Drew Collins orano lto enor ndante con moto» ( ) ass 1 ndante con moto Piano dolce his edition coyright 2001 ndrew Collins his edition is available rom wwwdhecatonmusiccom or ree download, and may be reroduced, erormed and recorded reely

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