Name: Die erste Walpurgisnacht
Start: 1993-04-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 1993-05-02T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Kaiserpfalz

Artist

Admin

Direzione d'orchestra

Claus-Ulrich Heinke

Baritono

Hugh Mackey

Baritone

Others

Singakademie Niedersachsen

Orchestra

Singakademie Niedersachsen E.V.

tedesco

Die erste Walpurgisnacht -  (La prima notte di Walpurgis)

Producer

Frielingen

Germania

Mehrzweckhalle Garbsen

Hildesheim

Rex-Brauns-Halle Hildesheim

Goslar

Kaiserpfalz

Private

Public

La prima notte di Walpurgis

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Die erste Walpurgisnacht (The First Walpurgis Night) is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, telling of the attempts of Druids in the Harz mountains to practice their pagan rituals in the face of new and dominating Christian forces.

It was set to music by Felix Mendelssohn as a secular cantata for soloists (alto, tenor, baritone, bass), choir, and orchestra. He completed an initial version in 1831, and extensively revised it before publishing it as his Opus 60 in 1843.

The composition consists of ten movements, including the programmatic overture, lasting about 36 minutes:

Ouvertüre: Das schlechte Wetter – Der Übergang zum Frühling (Overture: Bad weather – Transition to Spring)
"Es lacht der Mai" (May is in full bloom): tenor & chorus of Druids & people.
"Könnt ihr so verwegen handeln?" (Could you be so rash, so daring?): alto, old woman, & chorus of wives of the people.
"Wer Opfer heut zu bringen scheut" (Whoever fears to sacrifice): baritone, priest, & chorus of Druids.
"Verteilt euch, wackre Männer, hier" (Divide your forces, valiant men): chorus of Druid watchmen.
"Diese dummen Pfaffenchristen" (Christians and their priests are witless): bass, watchman, & chorus of watchmen.
"Kommt mit Zacken und mit Gabeln" (Come with prongs and pitchforks): chorus of Druids and people.
"So weit gebracht, dass wir bei Nacht" (It's come so far that now by night): baritone, priest, & chorus of Druids and people.
"Hilf, ach hilf mir, Kriegsgeselle" (Help, oh help me, comrade): tenor & chorus of Christian watchmen.
"Die Flamme reinigt sich vom Rauch" (The flame cleanses itself of smoke): baritone, priest, & chorus of Druids and people.
Goethe wrote this text to be set to music, intending it for his friend Carl Friedrich Zelter, who tried twice, in 1799 and 1812, but did not complete a setting. Mendelssohn, who knew Goethe, first took it up in 1830 and it was first performed in Berlin on 10 January 1833.

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La prima notte di Walpurgis by Mendelssohn, Da (1993/1993), Direttore d'orchestra Claus-Ulrich Heinke, Kaiserpfalz, Goslar, Germania

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