Freundliche Vision

"Freundliche Vision"
Lied by Richard Strauss
A meadow full of daisies, as the text mentions
English Welcome Vision
Catalogue Op. 48/1
Text poem by Otto Bierbaum
Language German
Composed 1900 (1900)
Published 1901 (1901)
Scoring voice and piano (or orchestra, 1918)

"Freundliche Vision" (which has been translated as "Welcome Vision",[1] but can also be read as "Pleasant Daydream") is both a German poem by Otto Bierbaum and a Lied (art song) by Richard Strauss, his Op. 48/1. The opening line is "Nicht im Schlafe hab ich das geträumt" ("I did not dream this while asleep").[2] It is the first of five songs by Strauss, composed in 1900 and published in Berlin in 1901 by Adolph Fürstner. The works were scored for voice and piano, and arranged for voice and orchestra in 1918 by the composer.

Poem

Drawing of Otto Julius Bierbaum from 1897

"Freundliche Vision" first appeared in Irrgarten der Liebe (Maze of love) in Berlin and Leipzig in 1901.[3][4] The full title of the collection of songs, poems and aphorisms is "Der Neubestellte Irrgarten Der Liebe: Um Etliche Gaenge Und Lauben Vermehrt, Verliebte Launenhafte, Moralische Und Andere Lieder, Gedichte U. Sprueche. Bis 1905.", where it appears in the section "Bilder und Traeume" (Images and dreams).[5]

Composition history

Strauss in 1900

Strauss composed "Freundliche Vision", along with the other four songs of Op. 48, in 1900. This song sets a poem by Otto Julius Bierbaum, while the other four set poems by Karl Henckell. Strauss composed art songs as a transition between working in instrumental music and opera;[6] he wrote his first opera, Feuersnot, the same year.[7] He originally scored the five songs for voice and piano.[6] The songs were published in 1901 by Adolph Fürstner.[8] Strauss also made an arrangement for voice and orchestra in 1918.[1][9][10] "Freundliche Vision" is among the songs that the composer presented in more than one program on tours of the US, in Carnegie Hall in 1904, and in 1921 in Town Hall in two recitals.[9]

Julius Patzak and the Bavarian State Opera Orchestra broadcast a particularly noteworthy version, which is consistent with Strauss’s “preference ... for fastish speeds without sentimentality.”[11]

Music

"Freundliche Vision" has features in common with "Traum durch die Dämmerung", also on a text by Bierbaum, including a shift of key, here to illustrate the contrast of sleeping and a vision while awake. Strauss repeats for the last two lines elements from before, "Und ich geh' mit Einer, die mich lieb hat" (And I walk with one who loves me), condensing the text that took three lines before to "in den Frieden voll Schönheit" (into the peace full of beauty), sung over a tonic pedalpoint in the same pattern as all of the song.[2][12]

By other composers

The poem "Freundliche Vision" also inspired other composers, such as Max Reger, who set lines 3 to 9 to music as No. 2 of his Zwölf Lieder, Op. 66, in 1902.[6][4] Lutz Landwehr von Pragenau set the poem in 1979 for baritone and piano as his Op. 1/1 in Zwei Lieder für Bariton und Klavier.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Strauss, Richard: Freundliche Vision (Welcome Vision) op. 48 1 (1900, arr. 1918) 4' / for voice and orchestra". Boosey & Hawkes. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  2. 1 2 Vignoles, Roger (2008). "Fünf Lieder, Op 48". Hyperion. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
  3. ↑ "Freundliche Vision" (in German). zeno.org. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 Ezust, Emily. "Freundliche Vision". lieder.net. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  5. ↑ "Der Neubestellte Irrgarten Der Liebe: Um Etliche Gaenge Und Lauben Vermehrt, Verliebte Launenhafte, Moralische Und Andere Lieder, Gedichte U. Sprueche . Bis 1905". Amazon. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  6. 1 2 3 ""Freundliche Vision" (Otto Julius Bierbaum), op. 48/1 (1900)" (in German). kammermusik.org. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  7. ↑ Staff, Rovi. "Richard Strauss / Freundliche Vision ("Nicht im Schlafe hab' ich das geträumt"), song for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op. 48/1 (TrV 202/1)". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  8. ↑ Bibliothèque nationale de France. Notice bibliographique: FRBNF39746988. Retrieved 15 January 2018 (in French).
  9. 1 2 Schmid, Mark-Daniel (2003). Conceptions of Strauss's Position in the Canon. The Richard Strauss Companion. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, Praeger. pp. 373–374. ISBN 978-0-31-327901-0. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  10. ↑ Thomason, Paul (2008). "Richard Strauss — Notturno, Opus 44, No.1". paulthomasonwriter. p. 22. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  11. ↑ Blyth, Alan, Editor (November 2006). "Strauss: Ten songs". Song on Record (Paperback). 1, Lieder. Cambridge Cambridgeshire, New York, New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 300. ISBN 9780521027960.
  12. ↑ Vignoles, Roger (2008). "Liner Notes: Strauss, The Complete Songs, Vol. 3" (PDF). Hyperion. p. 22. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
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