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EGON WELLESZ
THE SACRIFICE OF THE PRISONER · Cult Drama for Dancers, Soloists and Chorus, Op. 40 (1926)
Wolfgang Koch Robert Brooks · WIENER KONZERTCHOR · ORF VIENNA RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA · FRIEDRICH CERHA
Wolfgang Koch Robert Brooks · WIENER KONZERTCHOR · ORF VIENNA RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA · FRIEDRICH CERHA
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UPC: 845221054230
‘This West Indian tragedy has remained the sole dramatic work of a heroic world in pre-Columbian times that, after a flourishing heyday, was abruptly terminated by foreign violence.’ Egon Wellesz (1925)
In musical terms, the Opferungshows Egon Wellesz at the zenith of his creativity. In this music, Wellesz’ emancipation from his mentor Schoenberg and his aesthetics has progressed even further, as throughout his life Egon Wellesz was interested in evolving his own, unmistakable musical diction. The events of 12 March 1938 put a sudden end to this so successful career: As a Jew, monarchist and the writer of ‘degenerate music’, the 53-year-old musician was immediately removed from all of his posts and wanted by the police after ‘the seizure of power’. Following a long illness, Egon Wellesz died in Oxford in 1974.
