''Music for Egon Schiele'' is the second album by the instrumental group

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, released in 1996. The album was composed as the score to a theatrical production, ''Egon Schiele'', about the life of the

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. It was staged by the Itinerant Theater Guild, in 1995.

Critical reception

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'' called the album "a haunting array of compositions that attempt to narrate the elements of Schiele's life through cello, piano, viola, and bass." ''

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'' noted that "the music is as stark and loving as Schiele's art, the sound of a noble, lonely agony rendered in elegant monochrome."

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wrote that "it is to pianist Rachel Grimes' credit that her pieces convey a stirring sense of drama and vivid imagery that perfectly match her subject."

Track listing

# "Family Portrait" – 5:41 # "Egon & Gertie" – 3:02 # "First Self-Portrait Series" – 3:47 # "Mime Van Osen" – 3:05 # "Second Self-Portrait Series" – 2:30 # "Wally, Egon & Models in the Studio" – 4:41 # "Promenade" – 8:24 # "Third Self-Portrait Series" – 2:23 # "Egon, Edith & Wally Meet" – 2:41 # "Egon & Wally Embrace and Say Farewell" – 3:09 # "Egon & Edith" – 2:55 # "Second Family Portrait" – 4:45

References

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