• Source: Die Alte (song)

      • "Die Alte" ("The Old Woman"), K. 517, is a song for voice and piano by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a poem by Friedrich von Hagedorn.


      History


      The work was completed in Vienna on 18 May 1787, at the same time as the demanding string quintets K. 515 and K. 516. The song features a dramatic musical portrait of an old woman reminiscing of the Good old days. The Great Comet of 1744 is mentioned in the lyrics. Mozart found the text in the composer Anton Steffan's Sammlung Deutscher Lieder, nr. 24 in part 2, Vienna 1779; Hagedorn's second verse was not present in this version.


      Music


      The song is written in the key of E minor, a key rarely used by Mozart, with a time signature of 24. The text is set in strophic form to 24 bars. The vocal range reaches from B3 to E5 with a tessitura from E4 to D5.
      A performance lasts between three-and-a-half and four-and-a-half minutes.


      Lyrics




      Recordings


      1956: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Walter Gieseking (piano), record notes by William S. Mann 1956. EMI ASD 3858 063-01578. Audio on YouTube


      References




      External links



      "Die Alte": Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, includes discography and audio
      "Die Alte", K. 517: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
      "Die Alte" ("Zu meiner Zeit"), song for voice & piano, K. 517 at AllMusic, discography

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