Pietà

Song TitlePietà (Search)
Composer(s):Paul Hindemith
Author(s):Rainer Maria Rilke
Keyword(s) & Features: Agony; Birth; Crucifixion; Death; Filling; Full; Gazing; Grief; Growing; Hard; Hearts; Jesus; Mary; Mercy; Misery; Pain; Sadness; Stones; Wombs
First LineJetzt wird mein Elend voll (Search)
Average Duration3:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1922 - 1923 (Search) rev. 1948
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=13581
Larger WorkDas Marienleben (Search)
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsModernism (Search)
Original LanguageGerman (Search)
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNLgocUwqtw
Catalog DesignationOp. 27 no. 11 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano
Range: C4 - E5 (Search)
Dedicated ToFrau Emma Lübbecke-Job (Search)
Premiered ByBeatrice Lauer-Kottlar (Search)
Recommended Printed SourceB. Schott's Söhne, Mainz (London), 1948 (Search)
ContributorGTM (Search)
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