Still songs
An edition of Still songs (2012)
Music in and Around the Poetry of Paul Celan
By Axel Englund
Publish Date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Language
eng
Pages
256
Description:
"Paul Celan, who has long been recognized as the most important poet of the German language after World War II, repeatedly referred to music and song in his poetic oeuvre, and few writers of the post-war era have inspired as large a body of musical settings by contemporary composers. Englund addresses music both as a thematic and structural presence in the poems themselves and as their sounding interlocutor in musical works by Harrison Birtwistle, György Kurtág, Wolfgang Rihm, Peter Ruzicka, and many others" --