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Otto von Walden: Gedenken (Remembrance), Op.84

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays a 'Salonstück' apparently by the German composer Fritz Schindler writing under the pseudonym 'Otto von Walden'.
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I know little about the German composer Fritz Schindler, whose dates are given on IMSLP as 1871 to 1924—however 'Otto von Walden' had reached Op. 122 by 1899, and also the 1871 Fritz Schindler was a flautist who produced a set of concert studies for flute drawn from various works of JS Bach - and as such, unlikely to have written this.  This piece was published in the 1910s in Russia, as a part of a set of 'new' salon music by the composer, but the style is quite dated, and similar to that of Gustav Lange.  The piece has appended to it a German poem, entitled 'Gedenken':

“Ich denke Dein, wenn liebestrunken
Die Sonn 'den jungen Morgen grüsst;
Ich denke Dein, wenn traumversunken
Der Mond die schöne Erde küsst;
Ich denke Dein, wenn seine Klage
Der Sprosser flötet tief im Hain;
Seit unsrer Liebe erstem Tage,
Wo ich auch bin: Ich denke Dein”

This translates approximately (please correct me) as:

“I think of you when intoxicated with love,
the Sun greets the young morning;
I think of you when dream-sunk,
the moon kisses the beautiful earth;
I think of you, when its plaintive lament
The nightingale warbles deep in the grove;
Since our love's first days,
where I am: I think of you”

Actually, although the score gives the English translation of the title as “Remembrance”, the poem does not suggest a memorial so much as a temporarily absent lover.

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