- Source: Am Grabe, WAB 2
Am Grabe (At the grave), WAB 2, is an elegy composed by Anton Bruckner in 1861, for men's voices a capella.
History
Am Grabe is a revised a cappella setting of the elegy Vor Arneths Grab, WAB 53. The elegy was performed on the funeral of Josephine Hafferl on 11 February 1861.
The original manuscript is stored in the archive of the Liedertafel Frohsinn. The song, which was edited first by Wöß, Universal Edition, in 1924, is put in Band XXIII/2, No. 13 of the Gesamtausgabe.
In addition, an autograph slight revision of the song has been found on an undated copy of the manuscript (Mus.Hs. 2104).
Music
The 21-bar-long, a cappella setting discarded the fourth strophe of Marinelli's text. The voice score of the first two strophes (bars 1-8) is almost identical to that of Vor Arneths Grab. The score of the third strophe is 5 bars longer. From bar 15 the score is different and ends at bars 19-21 alike bars 26-28 of the original setting.
A score with another text by Gottfried Grote has been issued by Schott Music in 1961.
There is also an arrangement by Jeff Reynolds for 4-part trombone ensemble (with optional contrabass trombone part).
Discography
There is only one recording of the full setting of Am Grabe:
Łukasz Borowicz, Anton Bruckner: Requiem, RIAS Kammerchor Berlin, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin – CD: Accentus ACC30474, 2019 - revised version (Cohrs edition, based on manuscript Mus.Hs. 2104).
NB: On CD LIVA 027, only the first two strophes were recorded.
References
Sources
August Göllerich, Anton Bruckner. Ein Lebens- und Schaffens-Bild, c. 1922 – posthumous edited by Max Auer by G. Bosse, Regensburg, 1932
Anton Bruckner – Sämtliche Werke, Band XXIII/2: Weltliche Chorwerke (1843–1893), Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag der Internationalen Bruckner-Gesellschaft, Angela Pachovsky and Anton Reinthaler (Editor), Vienna, 1989
Cornelis van Zwol, Anton Bruckner 1824–1896 – Leven en werken, uitg. Thoth, Bussum, Netherlands, 2012. ISBN 978-90-6868-590-9
Crawford Howie, Anton Bruckner - A documentary biography, online revised edition
External links
Am Grabe, WAB 2: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
Free scores for Am Grabe, WAB 2 in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
Am Grabe f-Moll, WAB 2 Critical discography by Hans Roelofs (in German)
Live performances on Youtube:
Norihiko Inada with the Wagner Society Male Choir of Japan, 11 December 1988: Am Grabe, WAB 2 - using Gottfried Grote's text
M. A. García de Paz with the Choir of the RTVE, 4 September 2022: Am Grabe at the 30th minute of Ciclo de Música Religiosa - Brahms, Mendelssohn, Rheinberger and Bruckner - using Marinelli's original text
New York Polyphony, 4 August 2023: Am Grabe at 1:00:02 of 'Glimpses of Beauty' - Festspiel Europaische Krchenmusik, Johanniskirche, Schwäbische Gmünd
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Am Grabe, WAB 2
- 1861 in music
- List of compositions by Anton Bruckner
- Vor Arneths Grab, WAB 53
- List of motets by Anton Bruckner
- List of secular choral works by Anton Bruckner
- Träumen und Wachen, WAB 87
- Mass No. 2 (Bruckner)
- Symphony No. 5 (Bruckner)
- Te Deum (Bruckner)
