Walter Braunfels

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(1988) Gottfried von Einem: Premiere of Symphony no. 4, in Vienna, Austria.
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[details ←] Ariels Gesang, Op. 18 - full score, percussion, harp,
[details ←] Die Vogel
[details ←] Don Gil, Op. 35, Vocal Score, vocal,
[details ←] Sacred Arias, 13
[details ←] Ariels Gesang, Op. 18 - set of parts, percussion, harp,
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Walter Braunfels: Die Vogel (The Birds) [Live from Los Angeles Opera, 2009] [Blu-ray]

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Label: Arthaus Musik/LA Opera
Languages: EnglishUnknownGermanSubtitledEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledSpanishSubtitledItalianSubtitledGermanOriginal LanguageDTS-HD 5.1
Manufacturer: Arthaus Musik/LA Opera
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Arthaus Musik/LA Opera
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Running Time: 132 minutes
Studio: Arthaus Musik/LA Opera




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Desiree Rancatore, Brandon Jovanovich, James Johnson, and Martin Gantner star in this 2009 Los Angeles Opera production of this Braunfels opera conducted by James Conlon, directed by Darko Tresnjak, and set design by David P. Gordon.



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Born: 19 December 1882 — Köln — Germany
Died: 19 March 1954 — Köln — Germany
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Worklist in German

(Source: Ute Jung: Walter Braunfels. Regensburg 1980)

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Life

Braunfels got his first musical instructions by his mother, a great-niece of Louis Spohr and friend of Liszt and Clara Schumann. 12 years old he studied the piano with James Kwast (who also taught Hans Pfitzner) at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. Later he became a student of law and economics at the University of Munich until a performance of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde brought a change of direction. So in 1902 he went to Vienna for one year to study the piano with Theodor Leschetizky and performed successful for many years. (As late as 1949 he performed Beethoven’s Diabelli-Variations in Radio.) Back in Munich he studied composition with Ludwig Thuille, head of the Munich School. In 1925 a fruitful period began as co-director of the newly constituted Cologne Hochschule für Musik. During the Third Reich Braunfels had to give up his post on account of being half-jewish. Though his works were banned he decided to stay in Germany and continue to compose. After the war he was asked to rebuild the Cologne Hochschule whose president he became in 1947. He retired in 1950.

Great artists performed Braunfels’s works including Walter, Abendroth, Furtwängler, Jochum, Klemperer and Wand. So in 1920 when Bruno Walter premiered the Opera "Die Vögel" (Aristophanes) this was Braunfels’s breakthrough. In the 1920s he was ranked as one of Germany’s leading opera composers next to Strauss and Schreker. During the Nazi-regime he worked with Paul Claudel on the Opera "Verkündigung". A cycle of religious cantatas (Advent, Christmas, Passion, and Easter) confirmed his belief in Christian humanism. His late works, e.g. the chamber music of the 40s, are much more restrained but of great beauty, comparable to Beethoven’s last quartets. There are works like the Sinfonia Brevis (1948) which show an expressive linearity very near to Hindemith but Braunfels was a romantic by heart till his end. Seen as old-fashioned in post-war Germany he was largely forgotten after his death.

Since the 1990 a modest revival of his work has taken place including some recordings. A thorough Live and Works appeared in 1980 written by Ute Jung.

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