Het gevecht met het hart/en
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Opus 32
History
- Song cycle on texts by Marcel Coole.
- Legley composed these songs between May 1947 en April 1948.
- The first performance of the work was given at the Vlaamse Club in Brussels on 27 January 1949 by Frans Mertens and Frieda Pey.[1]
Music
- instrumentation: tenor[2] and piano
- duration: 18'
Parts
- I. Thans is het tijd dat ik mij ga bezinnen [Now it is time for me to reflect]
- tempo: Moderato, senza rigore, ma energico
- II. Nimmer heb ik kunnen kiezen [Never have I been able to choose]
- tempo: Andantino
- time signature: 3/4
- III. Nu zoek ik mijn weg door een donker bosch Now I seek my way through a dark wood[3]
- tempo: Allegro moderato
- time signature: 5/4
- IV. Nu dat ik beheerschen zal mijn gebaren en mijn woorden [Now that I will control my gestures and my words][3]
- tempo: Andante ma molto energico
- time signature: 3/2
- V. Ik ben een nieuw schip dat zich van de kade heeft losgerukt [I am a new ship that has torn itself away from the quay][4]
- tempo: Allegro
- time signature: 3/4
- VI. Dagen, jaren, eeuwen, heb ik gezwegen [Days, years, centuries, have I been silent][5]
- tempo: Allegro non troppo ma molto deciso
- time signature: 2/4
- VII. Nu sta ik op den blanken berg van licht [Now I stand on the white mountain of light][3]
- tempo: Allegro molto energico
- time signature: 4/4
- VIII. Thans versta ik dieper de zin der dingen [Now I understand more profoundly the meaning of things][3]
- tempo: Andantino espressivo[6]
- time signature: 4/4
- IX. Blauw zit achter de wolken, sneeuw achter de zon [Blue is behind the clouds, snow behind the sun][3]
- tempo: Allegretto grazioso
- time signature: 3/4
- X. Nu verdwijnen de bergen en de dalen [Now the mountains and valleys disappear][3]
- tempo: (8th note) poco plus lent que (8th note) de n°9
- time signature: 6/8
Sources
- photocopy 1 of autograph: Royal Conservatory Brussels (B-Bc), shelf number CBD-B-0036-(00246)[7]
- photocopy 2 of autograph (KA): 'Royal Conservatory of Brussels (B-Bc), no shelf number (Legley archive)
Notes
- ↑ See:
- Anonymous: Schouwburgen en Concerten in Het Laatste Nieuws of 29 January 1949, p.8
- Anonymous: Muziekavond in de Vlaamse Club te Brussel in De Volksgazet of 29 January 1949, p.3
- CeBeDeM - lijst werken: Œuvres de Victor Legley, p.1.
- ↑ PA does not specify the voice type. PA shows that some of the songs have been transposed for a performance for which Legley was consulted, see the transposition notes to the separate songs.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Transposition note in PA: (2t).
- ↑ Transposition note in PA: (1 1/2t).
- ↑ Transposition note in PA: t) (photocopied incompletely)
- ↑ Tessely (p.140) erroneously gives Andante espressivo.
- ↑ According to De Roeck (p.301), the autograph would have been in the archive that Legley's son kept. However, in 2011 that archive was donated to the library of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where this work is not present. Perhaps this manuscript has remained in the Legley family after all.
