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Kurt Weill Edition Releases Music with Solo Violin Containing Der neue Orpheus and Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra

Nov. 30, 2010

The Kurt Weill Edition has just released its latest installment, Music with Solo Violin (Series II, Volume 2). Edited by Andreas Eichhorn (University of Cologne), the volume contains the full scores of the Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra, op. 12, and Der neue Orpheus, op. 16, Weill’s cantata for soprano, solo violin, and orchestra on a text by Iwan Goll.

Weill composed the works in 1924 and 1925, respectively. The concerto received its world premiere in 1925 in Paris, and the cantata was first heard in 1927, when Erich Kleiber conducted it at Berlin’s Staatsoper. Although piano reductions appeared during the composer’s lifetime, he never saw the works published in full score. In 1965 Universal Edition issued a full score of the concerto, but it was not actually engraved, and it lacked editorial commentary.

The Kurt Weill Edition presents the two works fully engraved, with an informative introductory essay and selected facsimiles that illustrate editorial issues. A detailed critical report appears as a separate volume, which also presents a facsimile of the concerto’s old published violin part with annotations by Stefan Frenkel, a violin virtuoso and friend of Weill’s, who championed the work in the 1920s (this instrumental part was one of several hitherto unknown sources that were unearthed during the years of work on the edition). Performers and scholars alike will want to consult the volume. Universal Edition has created new orchestral materials from these authoritative texts that are immediately available for rental.

The next volume in line to be published as part of the Kurt Weill Edition is Johnny Johnson, a play with music composed in 1936, edited by Tim Carter.

To learn more on the Kurt Weill Edition series, visit www.kwf.org and purchase by contacting kwe@eamdllc.com.

Find out more on the life and music of Kurt Weill at www.kwf.org and www.universaledition.com.

Kurt Weill Edition (Series II, Volume 2): Music with Solo Violin
ed. Andreas Eichhorn (New York: Kurt Weill Foundation for Music / European American Music Corporation, 2010)
Main Volume: 246 pp; Critical Report
Order # KWE 2002.

Kurt Weill
Der neue Orpheus (1925)
cantata for soprano, solo violin and orchestra
2(2 pic).2.2.2-0.2.2.0-timp.perc-hp-str (without violins)
18’

Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra (1924)
2 (pic).1.2.2-2.1.0.0-timp.perc-4 double basses
33’

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