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Easton Press. The Video History of Our Times: 1964. Norwalk Conn: Easton Press Video, 1988.

VIDEO VHS NEAR FINE condition with plastic case. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines and treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor...and other curious people. In your Video History 1964, you will see the following events that shaped that historic year: U.S. TESTS THE GIANT SATURN ROCKET The United States launches the rocket designed to propel a manned Apollo capsule to the Moon. The mighty Saturn, 16 stories in height and 562 tons in weight, is launched from Cape Kennedy. For the first time in the space race, the United States has surpassed Russia. FIRST WHEAT SHIPMENT TO RUSSIA The first grain to be shipped to the Soviet Union under the250,(XX),(XX) deal negotiated last fall is loaded in Norfolk, Va. Russia has contracted to buy 148,(XX),(XX) bushels. HAT STYLES BRING A BREATH OF SPRING Models display the newest fashions in readiness for the Easter Parade. CYPRUS CRISIS: ALLIES SEEK TO END TURKISH-GREEK FEUD Full-scale war threatens to erupt on Cyprus. Greek students demonstrate against British and United States proposals that a force of NATO troops help maintain a truce between Greeks and Turks. THE BEATLES INVADE THE UNITED STATES The quartet that has revolutionized the music scene in Britain arrives for their first American tour. THE WINTER OLYMPICS The Innsbruck games see many of the favorites upset. Canada's 4-man bobsled team gets a surprise win over the Austrians. In the men's slalom, Austria captures the Gold - but Billy Kidd and Jimmy Heuga take the Silver and Bronze for the U.S. France's champion bows to a "dark horse" from Germanym figure skating - and 14-year-old Scott Allen from the U.S. wins the hearts of the spectators and takes a Bronze. ACADEMY AWARD NIGHT IN HOLLYWOOD Sidney Poitier becomes the first black to win Best Actor Award. Other Oscars go to Patricia Neal for Best Actress and Tom Jones for Best Picture. NEW YORK CITY GETS NEW SPORTS STADIUM A new stadium, named for William A. Shea, is dedicated in Flush- ing Meadow, N. Y. Shea Stadium will be the home of the New York Mets during the baseball season, and its modern design will swing moveable seats into place for the football season when it will house the New York Jets. BICYCLE RACES CHALLENGE EUROPEANS In France and Spain, dedicated cyclists compete in grueling courses - by pedal in France and by motor power in Spain. PRESIDENT FORECASTS BOOMING PROSPERITY President Lyndon Johnson is predicting a30 billion profit for American business this year. CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM KEEPS ON WINNING The Boston Celtics win the NBA title for the sixth time in a row. And the Toronto Maple Leafs skate off with ice hockey's Stanley Cup for the third consecutive year. NATO NATIONS MEET IN HOLLAND The 15 nations of NATO meet for their Spring session, with Secretary of State Dean Rusk representing the U.S. THE SUPER-PLANE OF TOMORROW The B-70, a 2,~mph bomber that is expected to speed up the production of a new supersonic airliner, is unveiled for the first time. The 6-engine plane has such a radical design that I,~patents have been issued to its builders. TWO MOVIE GREATS TOGETHER AGAIN There's a gala party for two favorite stars - Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor - who are being reunited in a new chiller, The Night Walker. NEW INVENTION Aviation pioneer, Major Alexander P. de Seversky, reveals his new invention, the "ionocraft," a flying platform designed to perform many functions sixty miles above the Earth. AROUND THE WORLD IN 56 DAYS Miss Joan Merriam lands in California, completing a solo flight around the world which retraced the route taken by Amelia Ear- hart when she was lost over the Pacific. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 Congress passes the most sweeping Civil Rights Bill ever to be writ- ten into law. Five hours after the House votes on the measure, President Johnson signs it into law before an audience of legislators and Civil Rights leaders at the White House. WIMBLEDON TENNIS FINALS Roy Emerson of Australia defeats his countryman Fred Stole in men's singles, winning the crown he has sought for nine years. In women's singles, Brazil's Maria Bueno defeats defending title holder Margaret Smith of Australia in a stunning comeback. SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS Exciting performances mark the year in sports. At the Olympic Games in Japan, swimmer Don Schollander and sprinter Bob Hayes gain Gold Medals for the U.S The St. Louis Cardinals shut out the N. Y. Yankees in the final game of the World Series to win their first championship since 1946. .Crack driver A.J. Foyt captures another record in the Indianapolis 500, a race marred by the death of two drivers in an early pile-up. . . Rated as one of the greatest horses of all time, 7-year-old Kelso winds up his career in style by winning the Washington, D.C. International.. The U.S. yacht Constellation defeats the British Sovereign in 4 straight races to retain the America's Cup. UNITED STATES BOLSTERS FORCES IN VIETNAM U.S. military advisors and air support will be increased in South Vietnam as President Johnson speaks to the nation to announce U.S. action. PRESIDENT INSPECTS DAMAGE WROUGHT BY HURRICANE DORA Hurricane Dora, one of the worst hurricanes to ever hit the southern U.S., leaves the people of Florida and Georgia with more than200,(XX),(XX) in damages. President Johnson flies down from Washington to make a personal inspection of the devastation and declares the affected sections disaster areas. MISS AMERICA The annual Atlantic City contest of American beauties picks Miss Arizona, Vonda Kay Van Dyke, as the queen who will reign in the coming year. FIRST LEGALIZED U.S. SWEEPSTAKES The small town of Salem, New Hampshire goes down in history as the scene of the first legalized sweepstakes in the United States, which raises2.5 million for the New Hampshire educational system. NOVEMBER ELECTION RESULTS President Lyndon Baines Johnson swamps Senator Barry Gold- water in a re-election bid. It was an election that has left political scientists wondering. Party lines were crossed, some local candidates ran ahead of the national ticket, split tickets were common and, for the first time since 1800, Washington, D.C. citizens were permitted to participate in the voting. Robert F. Kennedy, who resigned as Attorney General, is elected Senator from New York defeating the popular incumbent Kenneth Keating. His brother, Edward "Ted" Kennedy, is re-elected Senator from Massachusetts. But Pierre Salinger, former White House Press Secretary, goes down to defeat at the hand of GOP candidate George Murphy in California. MISS AMERICA CHOSEN Lynda Lee Mead is chosen Miss America, making it the second, year in a row a Mississippi beauty has gained the crown. SHAH'S BIRTHDAY Teheran holds resplendent birthday ceremonies for the Shah of Iran. After receiving felicitations in the Palace, the Shah is hailed in a spectacular mass torchlight display. VAN DOREN FACES QUIZ PROBERS Charles Van Doren faces the Harris Committee investigation of rigged quiz shows. He has retracted earlier denials of getting help, and has admitted to receiving the questions, and many of the answers, which won him129,000. SAPPHIRE THRILLER Many figures from the world of entertainment are present for the "show biz" preview of the new J. Arthur Rank thriller Sapphire at New York's Sutton Theatre. TWO TOUGH GRIDIRON DUELS The inaugural game of a new inter-service classic pits Army against the Air Force in an exciting battle that winds up in a 13-13 tie. In Baton Rouge, L.S.U. and Mississippi - both unbeaten and untied - clash in a tight game won by L.S.U., 7-3. BIG FOUR MEETING CLIMAXES IKE'S TOUR In Paris, President Eisenhower's momentous talks with De Gaulle, Adenauer and MacMillan result in invitations to Khrushchev for Summit meetings in each of the Big Four capitals: Paris, Bonn, London, and Washington. NEW POST -SEASON BOWL CLASSIC Penn State shuts out Alaoama 7-0 in the first edition of a new post- season classic, the Liberty Bowl, in Philadelphia. Video condition: Near Fine

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HOGARTH, William engraved by Thomas COOK: Set of four: The Four Times of the Day: Morning, Noon, Evening, Night,

London: Published by G.G. & J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row, Aug. 1, 1797. Line engraving. A fantastic set of Hogarth's famous series "The Four Times of the Day" engraved by Thomas Cook for his seminal text "Hogarth Restored. The Whole Works of the celebrated William Hogarth". William Hogarth (1697-1764) was one of the most important British artists of the eighteenth century. His influential work changed the history of British printmaking and influenced the development of moralizing social satire profoundly. Hogarth began his career as a painter, but he soon became an influential printmaker. He invented and popularized the English tradition of sequential anecdotal pictures and was one of the first artists to make his living as a humorist. Hogarth intended each series of paintings to be reproduced in print, a practice that popularized his images and made him one of England's most important artists. His prints proved so popular that eager entrepreneurs were quick to produce a myriad of pirated copies. These forgeries were so rampant that Hogarth was forced to campaign against the profiteers; his efforts eventually led to the institution of the copyright act of 1735. In this striking series Hogarth uses a staid artistic theme, the times of the day, to comment on the corruption of modern urban life. The "Four Times of the Day" is at once an iconoclastic portrait of London life and witty satire on the disintegration of modern morals. It is a masterpiece of both content and composition and it is considered one of Hogarth's most accomplished series of engravings. Thomas Cook engraved this attractive set after Hogarth, as illustrations in "Hogarth Restored. The Whole Works of the celebrated William Hogarth". This superb text, published in 1806, faithfully reproduces Hogarth's celebrated engravings. Cook, who has a natural eye for detail and an accomplished engraving technique, expertly reproduces the plates. [Plate 1: "Morning"] Printed on wove paper watermarked 1804. In good condition with the exception of some light foxing in the margins. Image size: 17 7/8 x 14 7/8 inches. Plate size: 19 7/16 x 15 15/16 inches. Sheet size: 23 x 17 7/8 inches. The first engraving in the series is appropriately entitled "Morning". In the anarchic bustle of Covent Garden a prim churchgoer, with her young servant, makes her way to St. Paul's church. She is surrounded by disorder as two couples fondle each other outside the Tom Kings Coffee House. Inside the coffee house a fight has erupted and on the other side of the market a quack advertises his services to a rabble of onlookers. [Plate 2: "Noon"] Printed on wove paper watermarked J. Whatman. In good condition with the exception of some light foxing in the margins. Light waterstain in lower right corner. Image size: 17 ¾ x 14 13/16 inches. Plate size: 19 5/8 x 15 ¾ inches. Sheet size: 23 x 17 ½ inches. "Noon" depicts a crowded street scene in Hog Lane, Westminster. On the right of the image pious churchgoers exit the small chapel after the Sunday service. They are confronted, on the left of the image, with a grotesque group of London denizens who seem to personify squalor and filth, both moral and literal. A young child wails at a plate of broken food he has spilled on the street while a ragged beggar girl greedily stuffs the fallen food into her mouth. A pretty serving maid carrying a large pie looks with a bored expression while a man kisses her cheek and grotesquely grabs her bosom. The pub sign in the background depicts a woman without a head and is named "The Good Woman", and the establishment behind the young couple displays a sign depicting a severed head and is revoltingly described as having good food. The opposing groups are divided within the image by a sewer, which both physically and literally separates the pious from the immoral. They only thing linking the two sides is a dead cat, which bridges the sewer, and acts as a horrid symbol of decay. [Plate 3: "Evening"] Printed on wove paper watermarked J. Whatman dated 1794. In good condition with the exception of some light foxing in the margins. Light waterstain in lower right corner. Image size: 17 15/16 x 14 9/16 inches. Plate size: 19 ½ x 15 9/16 inches. Sheet size: 23 x 17 inches. "Evening", the third image in the series, depicts a quarrelsome urban family at Sadler's Wells, a resort and water source on the outskirts of London. Instead of escaping the trapping of the city the family has transported their problems with them. The spoilt young boy wails obstinately as his sister scolds him threateningly with her fan while their parents walk away without a care. The wife and husband are detached from each other and the wife distances herself from her partner by creating a screen against him with her fan. [Plate 3: "Evening"] Printed on wove paper watermarked J. Whatman dated 1794. In good condition with the exception of some light foxing in the margins. Light waterstain in lower right corner. Image size: 17 x 14 3/8 inches. Plate size: 19 ½ x 15 1/2 inches. Sheet size: 22 13 /16 x 17 inches. The last image in the series, entitled "Night" depicts a crowded London street near Charing Cross on a moonlit night. In the lit window on the left a dentist prepares to extract a tooth from a poor man who grips the arms of a chair in horrified pain. Outside a drunken man stumbles home with the help of his faithful servant who carries a lantern. While someone empties their chamber pot onto the street a group of homeless women find refuge under a wooden trellis. Fire has erupted in the middle of the street causing a carriage to turn over, and the occupants to cry out in horror. George, Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires..in the British Museum 2361, 2374, 2386, 2396; Paulson, Hogarth's Graphic Works p. 104-105, No. 146-149

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Bogarde, Dirk: Backcloth. With an Index. Great Britain, London, Penguin Books, 1987. ISBN: 0140089675
Sehr guter Zustand. Aus der Bibliothek der Gräfin Ledebur. Very Good Condition. The fourth and final volume of autobiography from Dirk Bogarde, in which he retraces his life from childhood to the present day. Like the earlier volumes, it is a very personal account of his life behind the scenes, and an affectionate, amusing and touching review of an extraordinary life. - wikipedia--wiki-Dirk_Bogarde: Sir Dirk Bogarde (28 March 1921 - 8 May 1999) was an English actor and novelist. Initially a matinee idol in such films as Doctor in the House (1954) and other Rank Organisation pictures, Bogarde later acted in art-house films like Death in Venice (1971). He also wrote several volumes of autobiography. Early years Bogarde was born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde in a nursing home at 12 Hemstal Road,[1] West Hampstead, London, of mixed Flemish, Dutch and Scottish ancestry, and baptised on 30 October at St. Mary's Church, Kilburn.[1] His father, Ulric van den Bogaerde (born in Perry Barr, Birmingham), was the art editor of The Times and his mother, Margaret Niven, was a former actress. He attended University College School,[2] the former Allan Glen's School in Glasgow (a time he described in his autobiography as unhappy, although others have disputed his account)[3] and later studied at the Chelsea College of Art and Design. War service: Bogarde served in World War II, being commissioned into the Queen's Royal Regiment in 1943. He reached the rank of major and served in both the European and Pacific theatres, principally as an intelligence officer. He claimed to have been one of the first Allied officers in April 1945 to reach the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, an experience that had the most profound effect on him and about which he found it difficult to speak for many years afterward. As John Carey has summed up with regard to John Coldstream's authorised biography however, "it is virtually impossible that he (Bogarde) saw Belsen or any other camp. Things he overheard or read seem to have entered his imagination and been mistaken for lived experience."[4] Coldstream's analysis seems to conclude that this was indeed the case.[5] Nonetheless, the horror and revulsion at the cruelty and inhumanity that he claimed to have witnessed still left him with a deep-seated hostility towards Germany; in the late-1980s he wrote that he would disembark from a lift rather than ride with a German.[6] Nevertheless, three of his more memorable film roles were as Germans, one of them as a former SS officer in The Night Porter.[7] He was most vocal, towards the end of his life, on the issue of voluntary euthanasia, of which he became a staunch proponent after witnessing the protracted death of his lifelong partner and manager Anthony Forwood (the former husband of actress Glynis Johns) in 1988. He gave an interview to John Hofsess, London executive director of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society: "My views were formulated as a 24-year-old officer in Normandy ... On one occasion the jeep ahead hit a mine ... Next thing I knew, there was this chap in the long grass beside me. A bloody bundle, shrapnel-ripped, legless, one arm only. The one arm reached out to me, white eyeballs wide, unseeing, in the bloody mask that had been a face. A gurgling voice said, 'Help. Kill me.' With shaking hands I reached for my small pouch to load my revolver ... I had to look for my bullets -- by which time somebody else had already taken care of him. I heard the shot. I still remember that gurgling sound. A voice pleading for death" ... "During the war I saw more wounded men being 'taken care of' than I saw being rescued. Because sometimes you were too far from a dressing station, sometimes you couldn't get them out. And they were pumping blood or whatever; they were in such a wreck, the only thing to do was to shoot them. And they were, so don't think they weren't. That hardens you: You get used to the fact that it can happen. And that it is the only sensible thing to do". Film career: His London West End theatre-acting debut was in 1939, with stage name "Derek Bogaerde" in J. B. Priestley's play Cornelius. After the war his agent renamed him "Dirk Bogarde", and his good looks helped him begin a career as a film actor, contracted to The Rank Organisation.[8] During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp (1950) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee; by portraying a murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted (aka The Stranger in Between) (1952); in Appointment in London (1953) as a young airman in Bomber Command who, against orders, joins a major offensive against the Germans; The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954), playing a flight sergeant trapped in a dinghy with Michael Redgrave; Doctor in the House (1954), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor; The Sleeping Tiger (1954), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey; Doctor at Sea (1955), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles; Cast a Dark Shadow (1955), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them; The Spanish Gardener (1956), co-starring Cyril Cusack, Jon Whiteley and Bernard Lee; Doctor at Large (1957), another entry in the "Doctor series", co-starring later Bond girl Shirley Eaton; A Tale of Two Cities (1958), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens' classic; The Doctor's Dilemma (1959), based on a play by George Bernard Shaw and co-starring Leslie Caron and Robert Morley, (not a part of the "Doctor series"); and Libel (1959), playing two separate roles and co-starring Olivia de Havilland. Bogarde quickly became a matinee idol and was Britain's number one box office draw of the 1950s, gaining the title of "The Matinee Idol of the Odeon". After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim (1961), directed by Basil Dearden; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant (1963), directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter; television reporter Robert Gold in Darling (1965), directed by John Schlesinger; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, (1967) also written by Pinter; German industrialist Frederick Bruckman in Luchino Visconti's The Damned (1969); the ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial The Night Porter (1974) directed by Liliana Cavani; and, most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Death in Venice (1971) also directed by Visconti. In some of his other roles during the 1960s and 1970s, Bogarde played opposite renowned stars, yet several of the films were of uneven quality. Some of these movies included The Angel Wore Red (1960), playing an unfrocked priest who falls in love with cabaret entertainer Ava Gardner during the Spanish Civil War; Song Without End (1960), playing Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist Franz Liszt, a flawed film made under the initial direction of Charles Vidor (who died during shooting), and completed by Bogarde's friend George Cukor, in Bogarde's only disappointing foray into Hollywood; the campy The Singer Not the Song (1961), as a Mexican bandit co-starring John Mills as a priest; H.M.S. Defiant (aka Damn the Defiant!) (1962), playing sadistic Lieutenant Scott-Padget, in which Bogarde practically steals the movie from his co-star Sir Alec Guinness; I Could Go On Singing (1963), co-starring Judy Garland in her final screen role; The Mind Benders (1963), an off-beat film where Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University (precursor to Altered States (1980)); Hot Enough for June, (aka "Agent...

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Schumann, Robert: "Der Rose Pilgerfahrt" op. 112 "Der Rose Pilgerfahrt" op.112"

S. 130, Robert Schumann (geb. Zwickau, 8. Juni 1810 - gest. Endenich bei Bonn, 29. Juli 1856) "Der Rose Pilgerfahrt" op. 112 Märchen nach einer Dichtung von Moritz Horn für Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester (1851) Erster Theil No. 1 Die Frühlingslüfte bringen den Liebesgruß der Welt p. 2 No. 2 Johannis war gekommen p. 8 No. 3 Elfenreigen. Wir tanzen in lieblicher Nacht p. 12 No. 4 Und wie sie sangen, da hören sie p. 16 No. 5 So sangen sie; da dämmert's schon p. 27 No. 6 Bin ein armes Waisnkind p. 31 No. 7 Es war der Rose erster Schmerz! p. 34 No. 8 Wie Blätter am Baum p. 39 No. 9 Die letzte Scholl' hinunterrollt p. 47 No. 10 Gebet. Dank, Herr, Dir dort im Sternenland p. 55 Zweiter Theil No. 11 In's Haus des Totengräbers p. 60 No. 12 Zwischen grünen Bäumen p. 63 No. 13 Von dem Greis geleitet p. 66 No. 14 Bald hat das neue Töchterlein p. 72 No. 15 Bist du im Wald gewandelt p. 75 No. 16 Im Wald, gelehnt am Stamme p. 80 No. 17 Der Abendschlummer umarmt die Flur p. 82 No. 18 O sel'ge Zeit, da in der Brust p. 89 No. 19 Wer kommt am Sonntagsmorgen p. 94 No. 20 Ei Mühle, liebe Mühle p. 96 No. 21 Was klingen denn die Hörner p. 99 No. 22 Im Hause des Müllers, da tönen die Geigen p. 108 No. 23 Und wie ein Jahr verronnen ist p. 115 No. 24 Röslein! Röslein! p. 121 Vorwort Im Frühjahr 1851 erhielt Robert Schumann, seit September 1850 Städtischer Musikdirektor in Düsseldorf, einen Brief des unbekannten, aufstrebenden Dichters Moritz Horn (1814-74) aus Chemnitz, der ihm vorschlug, ein von ihm in Reimform verfaßtes Märchen zu vertonen. Schumann nahm den Vorschlag freudig auf und bat Horn um die musikalisch erforderlichen Änderungen, um die Sache knapper und dramatischer zu fassen. Laut Schumanns Projektenbuch komponierte er dann "April bis 11. Mai: Der Rose Pilgerfahrt f. Soli, Chor mit Begl. des Pianoforte [24 Nummern] [op. 112]". In der Erstfassung mit Klavier wurde Schumanns letzter oratorischer Beitrag im Juli 1851 zur Einweihung des neuen Schumannschen Musiksalons durch das von ihm geleitete 'Singekränzchen' erstmals gegeben. Obwohl ihm noch in einem Brief vom 29. September 1851 die Klavierbegleitung "des zarten Stoffes halber auch vollkommen hinreichend erschien und noch erscheint", machte er sich, wie aus dem Projektenbuch zu ersehen ist, bald darauf an die Orchestrierung: "November, v. 7.-27.: Der Rose Pilgerfahrt instrumentiert". In dieser Fassung wurde das Werk am 5. Februar 1852 unter seiner Leitung in Düsseldorf uraufgeführt. Über die Handlung schreibt Walter Dahms in seiner Schumann-Biographie (Berlin, 1916): "Hier handelt es sich um eine Rose, die sich nach menschlicher Verkörperung und Liebe sehnt, von der Elfenkönigin auch ihren Wunsch erfüllt bekommt, von milden Müllersleuten an Tochter Statt angenommen wird, den Förstersohn liebt und heiratet, nach der Geburt ihres Kindchens aber freiwillig von der Erde scheidet, da sie das Glück der Liebe voll ausgekostet hat und keine Steigerung der irdischen Seligkeit mehr erwarten kann. Die Dichtung von Moritz Horn quillt vor Tränenseligkeit und Gefühlsschwärmerei über." Schumann wurde noch im Dezember 1853 in Den Haag Zeuge des großen Erfolgs von Der Rose Pilgerfahrt, einer lange anhaltenden Popularität, die erst mit dem Ende der "Zeiten der Goldschnittpoesie" (Dahms) allmählich nachließ. Aufführungsmaterial (nach der Gesamtausgabe) ist vom Verlag Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden erhältlich. top of page Robert Schumann (born Zwickau, 8th June 1810 - died Endenich near Bonn, 29th July 1856) "Der Rose Pilgerfahrt" (The Pilgrimage of the Rose) Op. 112 A fairy tale after a poem by Moritz Horn for solo voices, choir and orchestra (1851) Part One No. 1 The winds of spring bring the world a salutation of love p. 2 No. 2 St. John's Day had come p. 8 No. 3 Round dance of the Elves. We dance in the lovely night p. 12 No. 4 And while singing they heard p. 16 No. 5 Thus they sang; day is already breaking p. 27 No. 6 I'm a poor orphan p. 31 No. 7 'twas the rose's first sorrow p. 34 No. 8 Like leaves on a tree p. 39 No. 9 The last clod rolling down p. 47 No. 10 Prayer. Thank thee, Lord, up there in the starry land p. 55 Part Two No. 11 Into the gravedigger's house p. 60 No. 12 Amongst the green trees p. 63 No. 13 Guided by the old man p. 66 No. 14 Soon, the new little daughter p. 72 No. 15 Did you stroll through the wood p. 75 No. 16 In the wood, leant against a trunk p. 80 No. 17 Evening's slumber embraces the open fields p. 82 No. 18 O blessed time, there in the breast p. 89 No. 19 Who comes on Sunday morning p. 94 No. 20 O mill, dear mill p. 96 No. 21 Why do the horns sound? p. 99 No. 22 In the miller's house the violins resound p. 108 No. 23 And as one year had passed p. 115 No. 24 Little rose, little rose! p. 121 Preface Robert Schumann had been appointed Municipal Music Director in Düsseldorf in September 1850. In the spring the following year he received a letter by the aspiring poet Moritz Horn (1814-74), who hailed from Chemnitz. Still an unknown literary figure, Horn suggested to the composer that he set to music his own recently completed rhymed fairy tale. Schumann welcomed the idea with open arms and asked Horn to make some necessary changes in order to transform the work into something more concise and dramatic. According to Schumann's book of projects he then composed "from April to 11th May: Der Rose Pilgerfahrt, for soli, chorus with piano accompaniment [24 numbers] [op. 112]". In its first version with piano, this last contribution by Schumann to the oratorio was premiered in July 1851. The performance was given by the 'Singekränzchen' and lead by the composer, in celebration of the opening of Schumann's new music salon. In a letter dated 29th September 1851 he considered the piano accompaniment, given the "tender subject, to be completely satisfactory still". He nonetheless set out soon after to make an orchestration, as can be ascertained from his book of projects: "November, from 7th - 27th: Der Rose Pilgerfahrt, instrumentation complete". This version was performed in Düsseldorf on 5th February 1852 under the baton of the composer. In his biography of Schumann (Berlin, 1916), Walter Dahms describes the plot as follows: "Here we have a rose that longs for human love and embodiment being granted her wish by the Queen of the Elves, adopted as their daughter by charitable miller's people, falling in love with the forester and marrying him, but deliberately leaving the earth after giving birth to her child, as she had fully enjoyed the happiness of love and no further enhancement of bliss on earth could be expected", adding "Moritz Horn's poem overflows with tear jerking and sentimental romantic zeal." As early as December 1853 Schumann witnessed the great success of Der Rose Pilgerfahrt in The Hague; this, then is a long standing popularity, one that at the end of an "era of gilt edge poetry" (Dahms) fades only gradually. For performance materials (according to the edition of Schumann's complete works) please contact the publisher Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden.

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