2 Alice Nahon songs
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Bidden is zichzelf vergeten om te denken aan een ander[1] (Alice Nahon)
Opus 103
History
- Legley chose two famous poems by Alice Nahon, Schaduw and Avondliedeken, for this opus.
- Legley completed the songs at the end of August 1984. He considered the second song as the successor to his youth composition on the same text from 1933.
- The songs were first performed by Ria Bollen and Jozef De Beenhouwer during a recording for the Belgian radio channel BRT 3 in 1985 or 1986, in a version for alto and piano.[2]
Music
- instrumentation: soprano[3] and piano
- duration: ca 6'30"
Parts
- A. Schaduw [Shadow]
- text incipit: Ik heb de liefde liefgehad [I loved love]
- tempo: Andante, molto legato e sempre come trascinando
- time signature: 4/4
- B. Avondliedeken [Evening Song][4]
- text incipit: 't Is goed in 't eigen hart te kijken [It is good to look into one's own heart]
- tempo: Mesto
- time signature: 4/4
Sources
- autograph: Royal Conservatory Brussels (B-Bc), shelf number BV-03-4092
- photocopy of a transposed version of song B: Royal Conservatory Brussels (B-Bc), shelf number BV-03-4092. Photocopy of a manuscript by Jozef De Beenhouwer made for a recording (see above).
Notes
- ↑ To pray is to forget oneself in order to think of another.
- ↑ De Roeck, p.527-528.
- ↑ On a photocopy of his autograph, however, Legley wrote down: 1° lied te laag voor sopraan [First song too low for soprano].
- ↑ Autograph: 1 toon lager [1 tone lower]. BV-03-4092 contains a version of the song transposed by Jozef De Beenhouwer (6 August 1985).
