Migration des âmes/en
Opus 45
History
- Songs on texts by Armand Bernier.[1]
- This composition was completed on 14 July 1954 in Woluwe.[2]
- The earliest documented performance was given by Louis Devos and Paulette Stevens in September 1956 at the Cercle Gaulois in Brussels.[3]
Music
- instrumentation: middle voice and piano
- duration: ca 10'[4]
Parts
- I. La vérité
- text incipit: Ne la demandez pas à Dieu
- tempo: Andante, e molto tranquillo
- time signature: 3/4
- Interlude
- piano solo
- tempo: Più vivo
- maatsoort: 3/4
- II. Le caillou bleu
- text incipit: Le caillou bleu qui doit se taire
- time signature: ₵
- III. Quand finira le sortilège?
- text incipit: Lorsque viendra pour vous, mon âme, l'heure de l'élévation
- tempo: Andante, quasi adagio
- time signature: 6/4
- IV. Nous rencontrerons-nous?
- text incipit: Âmes de mes chers morts, de mes morts en voyage
- tempo: Lento
- time signature: 4/4
Sources
- first edition: CeBeDeM, Brussels, 1956
Notes
- ↑ Possibly, the original title of the cycle was Vier Franse liederen [Four French songs], the name Karel De Schrijver uses to refer to the work on p.138 of his book Levende componisten uit Vlaanderen. Tweede deel. De jongere generatie van 1900 - ±1920 (Leuven, 1955). Legley might have changed the title of his composition after the publication of De Schrijver's book.
- ↑ First edition.
- ↑ Anonymous: Au Cercle Gualois - Séance de musique belge contemporaine in Le Soir of 26 January 1956, p.5.
- ↑ Thus at CeBeDeM's website and in the first edition, De Roeck (p.350), however, gives 12'.
