The Seven Deadly Sins

Version for low female voice (arranged by Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg)

Ballet Chanté

Edition: Performance material

Series: Die sieben Todsünden

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Description

The sisters Anna 1 and Anna 2 are sent on a seven-year journey to various North American cities by their family to earn money for ‘a small house near the Mississippi’. During their journey, they are tempted by the seven biblical deadly sins. Gradually, they give up their dreams and ideals eventually to return to Louisiana to their family, completely disillusioned.

Kurt Weill composed the ballet chanté Die sieben Todsünden, based on a text by Bertolt Brecht, in 1933 in his Paris exile. Premièred in the ballet version of Georges Balanchine at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on 7 June 1933, it quickly became one of his best-known works. The music plays with popular American music styles of the twenties such as tango, foxtrot, polka or barbershop. Weill and Brecht perfectly ironize the petty bourgeois double standards of each society willing to sacrifice their values for the sake of financial gain.

Orchestral Cast

2 (auch Picc.) · 1 · 2 · 1 - 2 · 2 · 1 · 1 - 4 P. S. (Gong · Beck. · 3 Tomt. · gr. Tr. ) (2 Spieler) - Banjo (auch Git.) · Hfe. · Klav. - Str.

Content

I Prolog
II Faulheit
III Stolz
IV Zorn
V Völlerei
VI Unzucht
VII Habsucht
VIII Neid
IX Epilog

Cast

Anna I · Sopran - Anna II · Tänzerin - Die Familie: Tenor I, II, Bariton, Bass (die Mutter)
Im Klavierauszug zur Neuausgabe erscheinen die transponierten Gesänge für tiefe Frauenstimme als Anhang .]

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Title:

The Seven Deadly Sins

Version for low female voice (arranged by Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg)

Ballet Chanté

Text by Bertolt Brecht

English by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman

Language:

German, English

Edition:

Performance material

Publisher/Label:

Schott Music

Year of composition:

1933

Duration:

35 ′

Series:

Die sieben Todsünden

Technical Details

Product number:

LS 4213-02

Delivery rights:

Worldwide