Sonnets to Orpheus

Year:

2012

Text:

R.M. Rilke

Instrumentation:

tenor, piano

Duration:

35 minutes

Composition Type:

  • Vocal Music

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Along with his Elegies, Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus stand at the pinnacle of his art, the sudden flowering of his genius after years of hidden germination.

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