RWA Online Encyclopedia II – Songs and Choral Works WoO VII/20

In verschwiegener Nacht WoO VII/20

for voice and piano

Content
Creation
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Status
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Dedication
Frau Elsa von Bercken geb. von Bagenski verehrungsvollst gewidmet
Performance medium
Voice; Piano
Work collection
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Original work
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Versions
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1.

Reger-Werkausgabe Bd. II/1: Lieder I, S. 142–143.
Herausgeber Alexander Becker, Christopher Grafschmidt, Stefan König, Stefanie Steiner-Grage.
Verlag Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart; Verlagsnummer: CV 52.808.
Erscheinungsdatum Juni 2017.
Notensatz Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart.
Copyright 2017 by Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart and Max-Reger-Institut, Karlsruhe – CV 52.808.
Vervielfältigungen jeglicher Art sind gesetzlich verboten. / Any unauthorized reproduction is prohibited by law.
Alle Rechte vorbehalten. / All rights reserved.
ISMN M-007-17140-7.
ISBN 978-3-89948-268-3.

Werk
Category
Text template
First edition

Anna Ritter: In verschwiegener Nacht, in: ead.: Gedichte, Verlag von A. G. Liebeskind, Leipzig 1898, p. [37].

Template edition

First edition

Used for comparison purposes in RWA: Anna Ritter: In verschwiegener Nacht, in: ead.: Gedichte, 5th edition, J. G. Cotta’sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger, Stuttgart 1900, p. [37].

Copy shown in RWA: DE, Karlsruhe, Max-Reger-Institut/Elsa-Reger-Stiftung.

Annotations
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1. Composition and Publication

Hardly anything is known about the composition of In verschwiegener Nacht WoO VII/20 to a text by Anna Ritter. The song was probably written, like the Wiegenlied WoO VII/19, in the first half of 1899, and was published in June in the music and literature periodical Die Redenden Künste. This was where Reger’s output had been the subject of a detailed assessment in November 1898 by Caesar Hochstetter. Like the Wiegenlied, In verschwiegener Nacht WoO VII/20 was also dedicated to Elsa von Bercken, whom Reger had already honored in 1898 in the first of the Four Songs op. 23.1 In the light of later events, this served as an announcement of Reger’s (initially unsuccessful) courtship in June/July of the same year.2

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Composition and publication · Widmung

2.

Translation by Elizabeth Robinson.

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Reger had already dedicated the first copy of the Two Sacred Songs op. 19 dated 29 April 1898 (Meininger Museen [Max-Reger-Archiv], Inventory number XI-1 4392 / Nhs.) to Elsa von Bercken, but in the engraver’s copy and the first printed edition this is no longer present. It is not clear why the dedication was ultimately not included.
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And for the ten love songs, which were to form the basis of opp. 35 and 37 after Elsa von Bercken’s rejection, his future wife was intended as the dedicatee.

1. Reception

At present, there are no records of performances in Reger's time.

1. Stemma

Die in Klammern gesetzten Quellen sind verschollen.
Die in Klammern gesetzten Quellen sind verschollen.

2. Quellenbewertung

Der Edition liegt als Leitquelle der Erstdruck (Zeitschriftenbeilage) zugrunde. Die Einzelausgabe (siehe ebda. )) ist mit diesem im Notentext identisch.

3. Sources

  • Stichvorlage
  • Erstdruck
Object reference

Max Reger: In verschwiegener Nacht WoO VII/20, in: Reger-Werkausgabe, www.reger-werkausgabe.de/mri_work_00246.html, last check: 19th April 2024.

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