{"product_id":"25741-weber-carl-maria-von-die-temperamente-bei-dem-verluste-der-geliebten-op-46-first-edition-of-one-of-the-first-ever-song-cycles","title":"Weber, Carl Maria von. (1786 - 1826) Die Temperamente bei dem Verluste der Geliebten. Op. 46. - FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE FIRST EVER SONG CYCLES","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDie Temperamente bei dem Verluste der Geliebten : vier Gedichte von Gubitz, op. 46 \/ in Musik gesetzt mit Begleitung des Pianoforte von Carl Maria von Weber.\u003c\/em\u003e Oblong folio. \u003cspan\u003e25 x 31 cm. Engraved throughout. [PN] 234. 4 - 18 pp. Extensive dampstaining, else fine. Together with a manuscript copy in unknown hand of the song \"Heimlicher Liebe Pein\" (WeV L.60, JV 235), the third piece in Weber's \u003cem\u003eSechs Gesänge\u003c\/em\u003e, Op. 64. \u003c\/span\u003eBoth scores from the collection of pianist Graham Johnson, widely recognized as one of the world’s leading vocal accompanists. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeber was the superstar composer of his time. His style of composition, rooted in German folksong, filled with humor and declamation, was incredibly popular. As well as with the piano, he composed many songs with guitar accompaniment, making his music even more accessible to the public. Such was Weber’s fame, Wilhelm Müller, the creator of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDie schöne Müllerin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, dedicated a volume of poetry to him, perhaps in the hope the composer might set a text. Weber’s song style is often called improvisational, but his music does truly capture the popular style of the time. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeber's \u003cem\u003eDie Temperamente\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the earliest examples of a song cycle, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003egenerally defined as a group of songs, usually for solo voice and piano, that constitute a literary and musical unit. The present work was composed simultaneously with Beethoven's  cycle \u003cem\u003eAn die ferne Geliebte\u003c\/em\u003e: Weber began working on his cycle first, in 1815, but Beethoven finished his first, in April of 1816, as opposed to Weber, who finished his on November 3, 1816. Different from Beethoven's highly and overtly unified cycle, Weber is preoccupied with an \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eideal of nested autonomy, or a whole containing other wholes. As he would write the next year (1817) in a review of Hoffmann's \u003cem\u003eUndine\u003c\/em\u003e, \"The very nature and inner constitution of opera as a whole containing other wholes-has this essential draw-back, which only few heroes of the art have managed to surmount. Every musical number has its own proper architecture, which makes it an independent and organic unity; yet this should be absorbed in any study of the work as a whole.\" \"Weber's choice for a text of his first, and only, exercise in the genre seems uniquely disposed to permit this autonomy. The four temperaments are a traditional understanding of a human personality as a mixture of four primary and distinct types: the sanguine, the choleric, the melancholic, and the phlegmatic. The text of Weber's cycle, setting Wilhelm Gubitz's poetry, features the reactions of the four personality types to the abandonment of a lover, but they are written at some distance—their emotional expression is stylized instead of interiorized.\" (Joseph E. Morgan, \"Experiencing Carl Maria von Weber,\" p. 77)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62756339384479,"sku":"25741","price":575.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Weber25741a.jpg?v=1775761897","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/25741-weber-carl-maria-von-die-temperamente-bei-dem-verluste-der-geliebten-op-46-first-edition-of-one-of-the-first-ever-song-cycles","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}