Litta: Le lac d'amour, La déesse nue & Der Tod als Fiedler
3/20/2020, 6 Tracks, 1:22:20
Featuring
Ilona Then-Bergh
Michael Schäfer
Paolo Litta
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Composer Biography
Paolo Litta, born in Stockholm in 1871, was the son of a Swedish mother and an Italian father and spent his youth and some study years in Brussels.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Paolo Litta's Concert Trilogy for Violin and Piano is based on Richard Wagner's Ring, Georges Rodenbach's novel Bruges-la-Morte, and Paul Gauguin's painting D'où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous?
Composer Biography
Paolo Litta married Italian opera and concert singer Ida Isori in 1900, to whom he dedicated Le Lac d'Amour, and they settled in Fiesole near Florence.
Compositional Technique
Litta adopted Wagner's leitmotif technique to link all pieces in his Concert Trilogy, Rodenbach's novel for the setting and plot, and Gauguin's tripartite form as a symbol for the human life cycle of birth, life, and death.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The Concert Trilogy reflects a nihilistic worldview of an inescapable end to all existence in an all-encompassing catastrophe of total annihilation.
Compositional Technique
The second part of the trilogy, La Déesse Nue, originally included a triangle part and an expressive dancer, which Litta referred to as 'gesehene Kammermusik' (visible chamber music).
Composition History
This over 80-minute work was composed by Paolo Litta between 1909 and 1924.
