Marietta's Lied

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (trans. Larry Odom)


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Subtitle: From Die tote Stadt, Op. 12.


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Year: 1920 / 2001
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Original Medium: Voice and orchestra
Publisher: Unknown
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown


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Die tote Stadt (The Dead City), Op. 12, is an opera in three acts by Erich Wolfgang Korngold set to a libretto by Paul Schott, a collective pseudonym for the composer and his father, Julius Korngold. It is based on the 1892 novel Bruges-la-Morte by Georges Rodenbach.

Glück, das mir verblieb (Joy, that near to me remained) is a duet from the 1920 opera, written for a soprano and tenor. Also called Marietta's Lied or the Lute Song, it appears in act 1. At the start of act 1, Paul confides in a friend the extraordinary news that he has seen Marie, or her double, in the town and that he has invited her to the house. She arrives, and Paul addresses her as Marie, but she corrects him: she is Marietta, a dancer from Lille. He is enchanted by her, especially when she accepts his request for a song, Glück, das mir verblieb. The words tell of the joy of love, but there is a sadness in it also because its theme is the transitoriness of life. Their voices combine in the verse which extols the power of love to remain constant in a fleeting world.

- Program Note adapted from Wikipedia


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