' ("The noble heart"), WAB 65, is a song composed by

Anton Bruckner Josef Anton Bruckner (; 4 September 182411 October 1896) was an Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist best known for his symphonies, masses, Te Deum and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-Germ ...

in during his stay in St. Florian.

History

Bruckner composed this work on a text of Ernst Marinelli in during his stay in St. Florian. He composed it for the name day of Johann Nepomuk Paulitsch, a member of the St. Florian choir. It is not known whether the work was performed during Bruckner's life.C. van Zwol, p. 721U. Harten, p. 141 The original manuscript, which became in-between lost, was found in the legacy of Bruckner's friend Rudolf Weinwurm. A sketch of it is archived at the Abbey of St. Florian. It was performed in 1988 by the Wagner Society Male Choir, Keio University, Tokyo, and, thereafter, in 1994 in the Connecticut College. The work, which was first issued in Band II/2, pp. 111–113, of the Göllerich/Auer biography, is issued in Band XXIII/2, No. 7 of the '.Gesamtausgabe – Weltliche Chöre
/ref> Bruckner composed a second setting on the same text for mixed choir (WAB 66) in 1857.

Text

''Das edle Herz'' uses a text by Ernst Marinelli.

Music

The 46-

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long work in is scored in

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for choir. From bar 34, the score goes over in in chorale form on "''dankerfüllter Seelenpreis''" until the end of the song.

Discography

There is as yet no commercial recording of this first setting of ''Das edle Herz''.

References

Sources

* August Göllerich, ''Anton Bruckner. Ein Lebens- und Schaffens-Bild'', – posthumous edited by Max Auer by G. Bosse, Regensburg, 1932 * ''Anton Bruckner – Sämtliche Werke, Band XXIII/2: Weltliche Chorwerke (1843–1893)'', Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag der Internationalen Bruckner-Gesellschaft, Angela Pachovsky and Anton Reinthaler (Editor), Vienna, 1989 * Cornelis van Zwol, ''Anton Bruckner 1824–1896 – Leven en werken'', uitg. Thoth, Bussum, Netherlands, 2012. * Uwe Harten, ''Anton Bruckner. Ein Handbuch''. , Salzburg, 1996. .

External links

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''Das edle Herz'' A-Dur, WAB 65
– Critical discography by Hans Roelofs * The performance of ''Das edle Herz'', WAB 65 by the Wagner Society Male Choir of Japan, 11 December 1988, can be heard on YouTube
''Das edle Herz'', WAB 65
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