Het gevecht met het hart/en
Opus 32
History
- Song cycle on texts by Marcel Coole.
- Legley composed these songs between May 1947 en April 1948.
- First performance in January[1] 1949 at the Vlaamse Club in Brussels by Frans Mertens (tenor) and Frieda Pey (piano).[2]
Music
- instrumentation: tenor[3] 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 [I've never could choose]
- tempo: Andantino
- time signature: 3/4
- III. Nu zoek ik mijn weg door een donker bosch [Now I search my way through a dark wood][4]
- tempo: Allegro moderato
- time signature: 5/4
- IV. Nu dat ik beheerschen zal mijn gebaren en mijn woorden [Now I will control my gestures and my words][4]
- 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 loose from the quay][5]
- tempo: Allegro
- time signature: 3/4
- VI. Dagen, jaren, eeuwen, heb ik gezwegen [Days, years, centuries, I've kept silent][6]
- 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 hill][4]
- tempo: Allegro molto energico
- time signature: 4/4
- VIII. Thans versta ik dieper de zin der dingen [Now I understand more profoundly the sense of things][4]
- tempo: Andantino espressivo[7]
- time signature: 4/4
- IX. Blauw zit achter de wolken, sneeuw achter de zon [Blue is behind the clouds, snow behind the sun][4]
- tempo: Allegretto grazioso
- time signature: 3/4
- X. Nu verdwijnen de bergen en de dalen [Now the hills en dales disappear][4]
- tempo: (8th note) poco plus lent que (8th note) de n°9
- time signature: 6/8
Sources
- photocopy of the autograph (PA): Royal Conservatory Brussels (B-Bc), Legley archives
Notes
- ↑ 27? De Roeck p.30.
- ↑ CeBeDeM - lijst werken: Oeuvres de Victor Legley, p.1. More details are not known.
- ↑ PA doesn't specify the voice type. PA shows that some of the songs have been transposed for a performance, Legley must have known about, see the transposition notes at the separate songs.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Transposition note in PA: "(2t)"
- ↑ Transposition note in PA: "(1 1/2t)"
- ↑ Transposition note in PA: "t)" (photocopied incompletely)
- ↑ Tessely (p.140) mistakenly gives Andante espressivo.
