Totentanz (Hugo Distler)

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• (Posted 2023-06-05)  CPDL #74055:     

Editor: Charles Pearson (submitted 2023-06-05).   Score information: Letter, 36 pages, 691 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Distler's original Mensurstrich notation has been converted to modern notation for ease in performance.

Notes about the origins of the piece and translations of the composer's performance notes are included.

General Information

Title: Totentanz
Composer: Hugo Distler
Lyricist: Angelus Silesius/Lübecker Totentanz^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Unknown

Language: German
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1934
Description: A cappella choral settings of separate proverbs from The "Cherubic Pilgrim" of Angelus Silesius alternating with a theme and variations for flute solo and with spoken texts reconstructed from the Lübecker Totantanz which were displayed with a series of paintings at St. Mary's Church, Lübeck, destroyed in 1942.

Original text and translations

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