Michael Tippett (1905 – 1998)

A Child of Our Time (1939-1941)

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Details
Product Type
Piano reduction
Author / Composer
Michael Tippett
Product number
354116
Languages
english
Extent
110 Pages
Publisher
Schott Music
Description

The oratorio 'A Child of Our Time' was Tippett's artistic and emotional response to the events that led to the 'Kristallnacht' pogrom of November 1938. For his oratorio Tippett used as his formal and historical models the Bach Passions and Handel's Messiah which share with this contemporary morality the subject of the death of an individual set against the universal background of human suffering. Tippett's use of the spiritual as a contemporary equivalent for the Lutheran chorale of the Bach set...