GOT LOST
Music for High Soprano and Piano
by Helmut Lachenmann
Voice Solo - Sheet Music

Voice and piano

SKU: BR.EB-9007

Music for High Soprano and Piano. Composed by Helmut Lachenmann. Voice; Folder. Edition Breitkopf.

World premiere: Munich (Biennale fur neues Musiktheater), April 25, 2008

New music (post-2000). Score. Composed 2007/08. 172 pages. Duration 28'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 9007. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-9007).

ISBN 9790004184295. 9 x 12 inches.

GOT LOST: a lost laundry basket and moreIn "GOT LOST", his sole composition for the traditional setting of "voice and piano", Helmut Lachenmann combines three rather heterogeneous texts that are perhaps "god-less" but that certainly "got lost": four rhyming lines from Friedrich Nietzsche, Fernando Pessoa's poem "Todas as cartas de amore sao ridiculas" (All love letters are ridiculous) - and a succinct English-language note that bemoans the loss of a laundry basket, which is what actually gives the work its name."Three only seemingly incompatible texts, stripped of their pathos-laden, poetic and profane diction, are sent from the same sound source - a soprano voice singing 'in whatever way' - into a intervallically ever-changing field of sound, reverberation and movement. Calling out, playfully, 'warbling' and lamenting arioso: they interrupt and pervade one another, thus marking out a space that ultimately remains foreign to them, and in which - as in all my compositions - music reflects upon itself with 'expression'-less joviality, thus showing its awareness of the transcendent, god-less message of 'ridicolas' that unifies these three texts." (Helmut Lachenmann, 2010)Libretto: Text 1 (Nietzsche) Friedrich Nietzsche 27. Der Wandrer Kein Pfad mehr! Abgrund rings und Todtenstille! So wolltest dus! Vom Pfade wich dein Wille! Nun, Wandrer, gilts! Nun blicke kalt und klar! Verloren bist du, glaubst du an Gefahr. (by Friedrich Nietzsche: Die frohliche Wissenschaft. Scherz, List und Rache. Vorspiel in deutschen Reimen, Chemnitz 1882) Text 2 (Pessoa) Fernando Pessoa [using the alias Alvaro de Campos] Todas as cartas de amor sao ridiculas Todas as cartas de amor sao Ridiculas. Nao seriam cartas de amor se nao fossem Ridiculas. Tambem escrevi em meu tempo cartas de amor, Como as outras, Ridiculas. As cartas de amor, se ha amor, Tem de ser Ridiculas. Mas, afinal, So as criaturas que nunca escreveram Cartas de amor E que sao Ridiculas. Quem me dera no tempo em que escrevia Sem dar por iso Cartas de amor Ridiculas. A verdade e que hoje As minhas memorias Dessas cartas de amor E que sao Ridiculas. (Todas as palavras esdruxulas, Como os sentimentos esdruxulos, Sao naturalmente Ridiculas) Text 3 (got lost-Annonce) Today my laundry basket got lost. It was last seen standing in front of the dryer. Since it is pretty difficult to carry the laundry without it I'd be most happy to get it back. (Notice in the elevator of the Villa Walther in Berlin-Grunewald, 2001/02?) CD:Yuko Kakuta (soprano), Yukiko Sugawara (piano)CD Wergo WER 73672Sarah Maria Sun (soprano), Jan Philip Schulze (piano)CD mode records, mode 297Bibliography:Hiekel, Jorn Peter: Helmut Lachenmann und seine Zeit, Laaber: Laaber 2023, S. 402-418.Nonnenmann, Rainer: Bilder-Sturm-Flut. Helmut Lachenmanns GOT LOST zwischen Ikonen, Ikonoklasmus und Selbstbildnis, in: Helmut Lachenmann: Musik mit Bildern? Hrsg. von Matteo Nanni und Matthias Schmidt (= eikones, hrsg. von Nationalen Forschungsschwerpunkt Bildkritik an der Universitat Basel), Munchen: Wilhelm Fink 2012, pp. 141-169.Saxer, Marion: Kunstgesang als Klangsymbol. Belcanto in experimenteller Vokalmusik nach 1960, in: Musik & Asthetik, Heft 92 (Oktober 2019), S. 5-25

World premiere: Munich (Biennale fur neues Musiktheater), April 25, 2008.