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Robert Wittinger
1945 -
Austria
| R. Wittinger |
Robert Wittinger (10/04/1945), an Austrian composer, born in Knittelfeld.
Maldoror-Requiem
| Period: | Modernism |
| Composed in: | 1986 |
| Musical form: | free |
| Text/libretto: | Comte de Lautréamont and Martin Grzimek |
| Duration: | 55'20'' |
| Label(s): | Cadenza CAD 800 889 |
Maldoror-Requiem (1986), opus 42, is for 8 soli, mixed choir, narrator, and big orchestra. The requiem is written in the period 1984 - 1986. Text is a poem "Les chants de Maldoror" by the French poet Comte de Lautréamont (ps. of Isidore-Lucien Ducasse, 1846 - 1870), who has been considered as an insane man. The lyrics are completed by Martin Grzimek (1950 - ).
| Author: | Herman Ram |
| Cm. de Lautréamont (text) |
M. Grzimek (text) |