Works
poet
: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
instrumentation: vocal quartet ♦ After writing Recueillement (Contemplation) for alto and piano on a text by Baudelaire and then orchestrating the work (RC 79/80) in the summer of 1907, more than a year went by before Diepenbrock sta…
instrumentation: vocal quartet ♦ On 19 August 1908, three days after noting down his setting of Goethe’s Gleich zu Gleich (Like to Like, RC 85), Diepenbrock drafted the outlines of Wandrers Nachtlied (Wanderer’s Night Song), which wa…
instrumentation: vocal quartet ♦ A month after setting the poem Auf dem See (On the Lake) by Goethe to music, Diepenbrock wrote to his friend W.G. Hondius van den Broek that it had fascinated him for years. He was clearly pleased wit…
instrumentation: baritone and piano ♦ In August 1908 Diepenbrock started working on vocal quartets for Gerard Zalsman’s ensemble of soloists (RC 85, 86 and 87), focussing on poetry by Goethe. On 21 October of that year, the day after the …
instrumentation: vocal quartet ♦ During the preparations for the concerts in October 1908 at which Gerard Zalsman and his quartet of soloists were to premiere Diepenbrock’s Gleich zu Gleich (Like to Like, RC 85), Wandrers Nachtlied (…
