Elegy for Young Lovers (Elegie für junge Liebende)

Opera in three acts by Wystan Hugh Auden and Chester Kallman

Commissioned by Süddeutscher Rundfunk

(French by Irène Aitoff)

Period of composition 1959-61
Revised Version 1987
Duration 150 minutes

Dedicated to…

Elegy for Young Lovers (Elegie für junge Liebende)

A Jewish Chronicle (Jüdische Chronik)

IV. Uprising

Joint composition project for alto and baritone, chamber choir, 2 speakers and small orchestra

Words Jens Gerlach

Year of composition 1961
Duration

A Jewish Chronicle (Jüdische Chronik)

Once and Now (Ehmals und jetzt)

for voice and piano

on the homonymous poem by Friedrich Hölderlin

Year of composition 1961
Duration 1 minute 30 seconds

To Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt o occasion of his…

Once and Now (Ehmals und jetzt)

Six Absences

for harpsichord

Year of composition 1961
Duration 9 minutes 30 seconds

For Antoinette Vischer

I Molto mesto e lento
II Andante cantabile
III Pesante, molto mosso
IV

Six Absences

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