Bittner, Julius

Bittner, Julius – Fünf Lieder für eine Altstimme mit Orchester (1916), Dichtung vom Komponisten (German text by the composer)

(geb. Wien, 9. April 1874 — gest. ebd., 9. Januar 1939)

1. Es dunkelt (It is getting dark) (p. 1)
2. Gesang der Liebenden (Song of the Loving Woman) (p. 5)
3. Das Ständchen (The Serenade) (p. 14)
4. Des Abends (In the Evening) (p. 30)
5. Hymnus (Hymn) (p. 37)

Orchestration:
3 (3rd also piccolo), 2, cor anglais,1 3 (3rd also bass clarinet), 3 (3rd also double bassoon) — 4, 3, 3, 1 — 2 hps., org., timp., perc. (1 player [sn. dr., TT]), str.

Among the Viennese composers of Bittner’s immediate generation, Alexander Zemlinsky (1871−1942) has been the subject of long-overdue attempts to reintegrate his work into the repertoire since the 1980s …

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