Vier letzte Lieder

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Vier letzte Lieder is a set of four orchestral songs for soprano composed by Richard Strauss near the end of his life, celebrated for their lush late-Romantic style and meditations on mortality and farewell.

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instanceOf classical composition
orchestral song
song cycle
associatedWith Richard Strauss’s late style
catalogueNumber TrV 296
composer Richard Strauss NERFINISHED
considered one of Richard Strauss’s masterpieces
countryOfOrigin Germany
dateComposed 1948
dedicatedTo Kirsten Flagstad NERFINISHED
firstPerformanceCity London NERFINISHED
firstPerformanceConductor Wilhelm Furtwängler NERFINISHED
firstPerformanceCountry United Kingdom NERFINISHED
firstPerformanceDate 22 May 1950
firstPerformanceLocation Royal Albert Hall NERFINISHED
firstPerformanceOrchestra Philharmonia Orchestra NERFINISHED
firstPerformer Kirsten Flagstad NERFINISHED
genre late-Romantic music
hasKeyCharacteristic lush orchestration
lyrical vocal writing
language German
movement Beim Schlafengehen NERFINISHED
Frühling
Im Abendrot NERFINISHED
September
notableRecordingArtist Elisabeth Schwarzkopf NERFINISHED
Gundula Janowitz NERFINISHED
Jessye Norman NERFINISHED
Kiri Te Kanawa NERFINISHED
Renée Fleming NERFINISHED
numberOfParts 4
orchestration large late-Romantic orchestra
placeComposed Switzerland NERFINISHED
scoredFor soprano and orchestra
stylePeriod 20th-century classical music
late Romantic
subjectMatter evening and sunset imagery
nature and transience
textAuthor Hermann Hesse NERFINISHED
Joseph von Eichendorff NERFINISHED
textLanguage German
theme acceptance of death
farewell
mortality
titleTranslation Four Last Songs NERFINISHED
usesPoetryBy Hermann Hesse NERFINISHED
Joseph von Eichendorff NERFINISHED
voiceType soprano

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Richard Strauss notableWork Vier letzte Lieder