Margaret Ruthven Lang was the first female composer whose work was performed by a symphony orchestra in the USA.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The album's concept explores the ambivalent figure of the clown in art song, searching for what the clown feels and who they are without makeup.
Composer Biography
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, a successful film composer in Hollywood, rewrote his '5 Songs of the Clown' from memory after fleeing to California.
Composer Biography
Max Kowalski, a Jewish composer, was banned from his profession and imprisoned in Buchenwald by the Nazis before emigrating to England, where he continued to compose but found no publishers.
Composition History
Eduard Künneke's 'Pierrot-Lieder' Op. 48, originally written in 1913, were re-texted in 1940 by Ursel Renate Hirt to save the work from Nazi censorship, as the original librettist Arthur Kahane was Jewish.
Composition History
Max Kowalski's '12 Gedichte aus Pierrot Lunaire' were published in 1913, at the height of the Pierrot motif's popularity, but his extensive work fell into obscurity due to Nazi persecution.
Composition History
Erich Wolfgang Korngold's '5 Songs of the Clown' were written in 1937, but after the Nazi takeover, his Jewish heritage led to his property being confiscated and scores destroyed in Vienna.
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