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Shooting stars),
WAB 73, is a
song
A song is a musical composition intended to be performed by the human voice. This is often done at distinct and fixed pitches (melodies) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs contain various forms, such as those including the repetitio ...
, which
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 ...
composed for his own men's voice quartet in during his stay in the
Sankt Florian
Sankt Florian (also ''Florian'' or ''St.Florian'') is a town in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. It is 10 miles (16 km) from Linz.
Sankt Florian is the home of St Florian's Priory, a community of Canons Regular named after Saint Flori ...
.
History
Bruckner composed the song on a text of Ernst Marinelli in . He dedicated it to his own men's voice quartet, which was composed of Ludwig Ehrenecker, Franz Schäfler, Johann Nepomuk Hueber and himself. It is not known when the piece was first performed.
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The original manuscript is stored in the archive of the
St. Florian Abbey.
The piece was first published in band II/2, pp. 94-96 of the Göllerich/Auer biography. It was thereafter issued in 1954, together with ''
Ständchen'', in the ''Chorblattreihe'' of Robitschek,
Vienna
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The piece is issued in Band XXIII/2, No. 5 of the '.
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Text
''Sternschnuppen'' is using a text by Ernst Marinelli.
Music
The 38-bar
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long work in F major
F major (or the key of F) is a major scale based on F, with the pitches F, G, A, B, C, D, and E. Its key signature has one flat. Its relative minor is D minor and its parallel minor is F minor
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is scored for quartet.
Discography
A selection among the few recordings of ''Sternschnuppen'':
* Guido Mancusi
Guido Mancusi (born 14 June 1966) is an Austrian-Italian conductor and composer.
Life
Born in Portici near Naples, Mancusi was the son of the Neapolitan conductor Enrico Mancusi and the Viennese singing teacher Ines Mancusi and grew up in Naples ...
, Chorus Viennensis, ''Musik, du himmlisches Gebilde!'' – CD: ORF CD 73, 1995
* Hubert Voigt, Thüringer Männerchor Ars Musica, ''Weltliches und Geistliches'' – CD issued by the choir, 2012 live
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
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
*
''Sternschnuppen'' F-Dur, WAB 85
– Critical discography by Hans Roelofs
* Live performances of ''Sternschnuppen'' can be heard on YouTube:
** the Wagner Society Male Choir of Japan, 11 December 1988
''Sternschnuppen''
** the Schwuler Männerchor Zürich, 2015
''Sternschnuppen''
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Weltliche Chorwerke by Anton Bruckner
1848 compositions
Compositions in F major