Ballade von der sexuellen Hörigkeit - Song of Sexual Slavery

Submitted by tpberio on Sat, 02/10/2010 - 19:27

Kurt Weill – Luciano Berio

Weill – Berio

Year of composition:

1967

Year composition ended:

1967

Year of revision:

1972

Text:

Bertold Brecht

Language:

German

Scored for:

alto and ensemble

Duration:

Annotations:

From Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) by Kurt Weill (1928).

Instrumentation: cl, bass cl, acc, vib, vln, vla, vc, cb

Available for low alto (original key), and for high alto (transposed)

First performance:

1967, Venice. Cathy Berberian (MS)

Publisher:

Universal Edition

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