(My heart and your voice),
WAB 79 is a
lied
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composed by
Anton Bruckner
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in 1868.
History
Bruckner composed the
lied
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on a text of
August von Platen, in 1868 during his stay in
Linz
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. He dedicated it to Pauline Hofmann, sister of his pupil Helene Hofmann.
[C. Van Zwol, p. 717][U. Harten, p. 277][C. Howie, Chapter III, p. 117]
The original manuscript is lost, but a copy of it is stored in the archive of the .
In 1930, the work was published in Band III/2, pp. 144–150 of the Göllerich/Auer biography.
The song is issued in Band XXIII/1, No. 4 of the .
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Text
The song is based on a text by August von Platen, to which Bruckner made three small changes:
Music
The 60-bar
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long work in A major
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is scored for solo voice and piano
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figures on the piano ensure a uniform background for the song.
Discography
There are four recordings of ''Mein Herz und deine Stimme'':
* Marie Luise Bart-Larsson (soprano), Gernot Martzy (piano), ''Kammermusikalische Kostbarkeiten von Anton Bruckner'' – CD: Weinberg Records SW 01 036-2, 1996
* Robert Holzer (bass), Thomas Kerbl (piano), ''Anton Bruckner Lieder/Magnificat'' – CD: LIVA 046, 2011. NB: Transposed
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in F major
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F minor is a minor scale based on F, consis ...
.
* Elisabeth Wimmer (soprano), Daniel Linton-France (piano) in "Bruckner, Anton – Böck liest Bruckner I" – CD – Gramola 99195, 3 October 2018
* Calmus Ensemble '' Mein Herz und deine Stimme, WAB 79 - Bruckner Vocal'' – Carus, 2023 (arr. Høybye for vocal quartet)
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/1: Lieder für Gesang und Klavier'' (1851–1882), Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag der Internationalen Bruckner-Gesellschaft, Angela Pachovsky (Editor), Vienna, 1997
* Cornelis van Zwol, ''Anton Bruckner 1824–1896 – Leven en werken'', uitg. Thoth, Bussum, Netherlands, 2012.
* Uwe Harten
Uwe Harten (born 16 August 1944) is a German musicologist, who works in Austria.
Life
Born in , Harten grew up in Hamburg, where he was a boy soprano at the Staatsoper. He took over the roles of a child. In Hamburg he also began his studies of ...
, ''Anton Bruckner. Ein Handbuch''. , Salzburg, 1996. .
* Crawford Howie, ''Anton Bruckner - A documentary biography'', online revised edition
External links
*
''Mein Herz und deine Stimme'' A-Dur, WAB 79
– Critical discography by Hans Roelofs
* Von Platen's original text with English translation is available on The LiederNet Archive
* Robert Holzer's performance can also be heard on YouTube
A. Bruckner - ''Mein Herz und deine Stimme''
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