Melancholia per soprano e pianoforte (2002)
Musical form: Lied
Movement/Structure: 5 songs (see Annotations)
Instrumentation: soprano and piano
Duration: 11'
Year init.: 2002
Literary sources: I - Chapman, Hymnus in Noctem; II- W. Shakespeare, Hamlet; III - W. Blake, The little Boy Lost; IV - A. Gryphius, Die Herrlichkeit der Erden, V - Franz Grillparzer
Iconographic sources: Albrecht Dürer, Melancholia (see attachment)
Dedication: a Monika, affettuosamente
Omage: a Albrecht Dürer
Annotations: *1) G. Chapman (No pen can anything eternal).
*2) W. Shakespeare (The spirit that I have seen).
3) W. Blake, Father where are you going ( da: Little boy lost).
4) A. Gryphius (Die Herrlichkeit der Erden muss Rauch und Aschen werden...).
in alternativa: H. von Hofmannsthal (da Terzinen "Wir sind aus solchem Zeug...").
5) F. Grillparzer (Was ist der Erde Glück, was ist der Erde Ruhm, ein Traum). and J. Ch. Guenther (Der Feierabend ist gemacht, die Arbeit schläft) (only sketch).
Premiere: Trieste Prima 2011, 24 11.11., Manuela Kriscak soprano, Louise Sibourd piano (only the first two).
SIAE: 033050025-00