Michael Tippett (1905 – 1998)
A Child of Our Time (1939-1941)
Soli (SATB), gemischter Chor, Orchester
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Details
- For
- Soli (SATB), gemischter Chor, Orchester
- Product Type
- Study score
- Author / Composer
- Michael Tippett
- Product number
- 471508
- Difficulty Level
- 4
- Languages
- english
Description
The oratorio 'A Child of Our Time' was Tippetts 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 Handels Messiah which share with this contemporary morality the subject of the death of an individual set against the universal background of human suffering. Tippetts use of the spiritual as a contemporary equivalent for the Lutheran chorale of the Bach set...