Heinz Holliger’s “The Seasons” Set to the Text of Friedrich Hхlderlin: The Outer Circle and the First Approach

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Svetlana A. Kozlykina

Abstract

The article examines the versatile activity of the Swiss composer, oboist, conductor and teacher Heinz Holliger (b. 1939). Special attention is reserved to the composer’s composition “The Seasons”, which is included in his “Scardanelli-Zyklus.” Analysis is applied to the poetic origins of these choral songs – the poem by the German poet Friedrich Hцlderlin (1770–1843), written under the pseudonym Scardanelli, – and to its musical setting. Multitudinous alphabetical-numerical and musical-numerical correspondences are discovered between the work of the poet and of the composer. The special significance of the idea of the circle in “The Seasons” is demonstrated. The article includes equirhythmic translations of Friedrich Hцlderlin’s poems made by the author.

Keywords: Heinz Holliger, Friedrich Hцlderlin, choral music

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Kozlykina, S. A. (2013). Heinz Holliger’s “The Seasons” Set to the Text of Friedrich Hхlderlin: The Outer Circle and the First Approach. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, (1), 184–189. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/197
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Artistic World of Musical Piece
Author Biography

Svetlana A. Kozlykina, Rostov State S.V. Rachmaninoff Conservatory

Candidate of Arts (PhD) and is a faculty member at the Music Theory and Composition Department

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