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 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...