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Song composed by Franz Schubert
"Prometheus ",
D. 674, is an intensely dramatic
art song composed by
Franz Schubert in October
1819 to a
poem of the
same name by
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .
Music
The
lied was written for
bass voice in the
key of
B♭ major , but the key moves repeatedly through various
major to minor tonalities, ending in
C major .
[1] Goethe's dramatic declamation by
Prometheus would be set again, with very different effect, by
Hugo Wolf ,
[2] "with his alternations of
ariosos and
recitatives , Schubert created a miniature
oratorio ", observes Edward F. Kravitt.
[3]
Among many other lieder by Schubert,
Max Reger also created an
orchestration for "Prometheus".
[4]
Recordings
Voice and piano
Schubert: Goethe-Lieder ,
Thomas Quasthoff (
bass-baritone ),
Charles Spencer (piano),
RCA Records , 1995
Schubert: Goethe-Lieder ,
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (
baritone ),
Jörg Demus (piano),
Deutsche Grammophon , 1999
Schubert: Goethe-Lieder , Vol. 1,
Ulf Bästlein (bass-baritone), Stefan Laux (piano),
Naxos Records , 2000
Voice and orchestra (Max Reger)
Schubert arranged by Reger: Songs ,
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra ,
Dennis Russell Davies (
conductor ),
Dietrich Henschel (baritone),
MD&G Records , 1998
Schubert arr. Reger: Orchestral Songs ,
Klaus Mertens (baritone),
Camilla Nylund (
soprano ),
NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover,
Werner Andreas Albert (conductor),
cpo Records , 1998
Schubert: Lieder With Orchestra , Thomas Quasthoff (bass-baritone),
Anne Sofie von Otter (
mezzo-soprano ),
Chamber Orchestra of Europe ,
Claudio Abbado (conductor), Deutsche Grammophon, 2003
References
^ Leonard, James.
Prometheus ("Bedecke deinen Himmel"), song for voice & piano, D. 674 at
AllMusic (Analysis)
^ Wolf considered Schubert's "Ganymed" and "Prometheus" unsatisfactory, in part because "a truly Goethean spirit" could only be fulfilled in the "
post-Wagnerian era", according to a Wolf letter to
Emil Kaufmann , noted in Scott Messing, Schubert in the European Imagination: Fin-de-siècle Vienna , 2007, p. 192, note 57.
^ Kravitt, Edward F., The Lied: Mirror of Late Romanticism , p. 65.
Yale University Press , 1996,
ISBN
978-0-300-06365-3
^
Schubert arr. Reger: Orchestral Songs at
AllMusic
External links
"Prometheus", D. 674 (Schubert, Franz) : Scores at the
International Music Score Library Project
"Prometheus" on
YouTube ,
Matthias Goerne (baritone),
Andreas Haefliger (piano)
"Prometheus" – Max Reger orchestration on YouTube,
Thomas Quasthoff ,
Chamber Orchestra of Europe ,
Claudio Abbado
"Rhetoric, form, and sovereignty in Schubert’s 'Prometheus' D. 674"
thesis by Erica Brady Angert to
Louisiana State University (57 pages, 515
KB )
"Prometheus" – Art song by Schubert, Franz D. 674 , orchestration by
Carl Nielsen
Part songs
Lieder
"
Der Taucher ", D 77
"
Gretchen am Spinnrade ", D 118
"
Rastlose Liebe ", D 130
"
Der Mondabend ", D 141
"
Amphiaraos ", D 166
"
Die Bürgschaft ", D 246
"
Heidenröslein ", D 257
"
Vaterlandslied ", D 287
"
Hermann und Thusnelda ", D 322
"
Erlkönig ", D 328
"
Der König in Thule ", D 367
"
Der Wanderer ", D 489
"Wiegenlied", D 498
"
Der Tod und das Mädchen ", D 531
"
An die Musik ", D 547
"
Die Forelle ", D 550
"
Prometheus ", D 674
"
Willkommen und Abschied ", D 767
"
Der Zwerg ", D 771
"
Auf dem Wasser zu singen ", D 774
"
Du bist die Ruh' , D 776
"
Lachen und Weinen ", D 777
"
Nacht und Träume ", D 827
"
Ave Maria ", D 839
"
Im Frühling ", D 882
"Ständchen", D 889
"
An Sylvia ", D 891
"
Der Doppelgänger ", D 957 No. 13
"
Der Hirt auf dem Felsen ", D 965
Cycles Multiple