B.ALOIS ZIMMERMANN PRIVATE ELECTRONIC LP SOUND POETRY
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BERND ALOIS ZIMMERMANN
REQUIEM FUR EINEN JUNGER DICHTER - LINGUAL 1967-1969 LP
Kulturkreis im Bundesverbandt
MEGA RARE Bernd Alois Zimmermann's masterpiece released in a limited edition by Kulturkreis im Bundesverbandt.
Some info on the release: Nearly impossible to find, never surfaces on ebay for sale, this one was released not by a proper label, but by an association named Kulturkreis im Bundesverbandt in a small limited edition of copies. A real masterpiece of abstract chaos for speakers, voices, choruses, jazz group, organ, electronic sounds, plus electronic tape featuring reportages and texts from various poets. Its' complete title is Lingual (1967-1969) für Sprecher, Sopran- und Bass-Solo, drei Chöre, Orchester, Jazz-Combo, Orgel und Elektronische Klänge, nach Texten verschiedener Dichter, Berichte und Reportagen.
Bernd Alois Zimmermann was a post-WWII German composer. He is perhaps best known for his opera Die Soldaten which is regarded as one of the most important operas of the 20th century. As a result of his individual style, it is hard to label his music as avant-garde, serial or postmodern. His music employs a wide range of methods including the twelve-tone row and musical quotation. From 1948 to 1950, he was a participant in the Kranichsteiner/Darmstädter Ferienkursen für Neue Musik (lit. Kranichstein/Darmstadt Vacation Course for New Music) where he studied under René Leibowitz and Wolfgang Fortner, among others. In the 60s, he received more attention and success as a composer (including a second scholarship to the Villa Massimo in 1963 and a fellowship in the Berlin Academy of the Arts), especially after his opera Die Soldaten (The Soldiers) finally premiered in 1965. The opera had previously not been performed due to the enormous number of people required and the musical difficulty—the Cologne Opera had considered it "unspielbar" (not performable).
In his own compositional growth, he took his place in the progression of new music, from which the German composers were mostly separated during the Nazi regime. He began writing works in the neoclassical style, continued with free atonality and twelve-tone music and eventually arrived at serialism (in 1956). His affection for jazz can sometimes be heard in some of his compositions (more so in his Violin Concerto or Trumpet Concerto). In contrast to the so called Darmstadt School (Stockhausen, Boulez, Nono, etc.), Zimmermann did not make a radical break with tradition. At the end of the 1950s, he developed his own personal compositional style, the pluralistic "Klangkomposition" (German word referring to the compositional style that focuses on planes (or areas) of sound and tone-colors). The combination and overlapping of layers of musical material from various time periods (from Medieval to Baroque and Classical to Jazz and Pop music) using advanced musical techniques is characteristic of Klangkomposition. Zimmermann's use of this technique ranged from the embedding of individual musical quotes (seen somewhat in his orchestral work Photoptosis) to pieces that are built entirely as a collage (the ballet Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu). In his vocal works, especially his Requiem, the text is used to progress the piece by overlapping texts from various sources. He created his own musical stance using the metaphor "the spherical form of time". Bernd Alois Zimmermann cites composers Bartok, Hindemith, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Webern and writers James Joyce and Ezra Pound as his influences.
Condition: Vinyl lies in very good++ condition, looks to be quite clean on side a: and has some "hairline" marks on side b: from the putting the record inside and outside of the inner sleeve, while it sounds with some surface noise on side b:. Cover lies in very good+ condition, well preserved with the exception of a sticker removal on the bottom left corner (see picture), this was an ex-library copy.
Tracklist
A1 Prolog A2 Requiem I A3 Requiem II B Requiem II (Fortsetzung)SHIPPING & PAYMENT
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