Song composed by Franz Schubert
"Prometheus ", D. 674, is an intensely dramatic art song composed by Franz Schubert in October 1819 to a poem of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .
The lied was written for bass voice in the key of B♭ major , but the key moves repeatedly through various major to minor tonalities, ending in C major .[ 1] Goethe's dramatic declamation by Prometheus would be set again, with very different effect, by Hugo Wolf ,[ 2] "with his alternations of ariosos and recitatives , Schubert created a miniature oratorio ", observes Edward F. Kravitt.[ 3]
Among many other lieder by Schubert, Max Reger also created an orchestration for "Prometheus".[ 4]
Voice and piano
Schubert: Goethe-Lieder , Thomas Quasthoff (bass-baritone ), Charles Spencer (piano), RCA Records , 1995
Schubert: Goethe-Lieder , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone ), Jörg Demus (piano), Deutsche Grammophon , 1999
Schubert: Goethe-Lieder , Vol. 1, Ulf Bästlein (bass-baritone), Stefan Laux (piano), Naxos Records , 2000
Voice and orchestra (Max Reger)
Schubert arranged by Reger: Songs , Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra , Dennis Russell Davies (conductor ), Dietrich Henschel (baritone), MD&G Records , 1998
Schubert arr. Reger: Orchestral Songs , Klaus Mertens (baritone), Camilla Nylund (soprano ), NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Werner Andreas Albert (conductor), cpo Records , 1998
Schubert: Lieder With Orchestra , Thomas Quasthoff (bass-baritone), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano ), Chamber Orchestra of Europe , Claudio Abbado (conductor), Deutsche Grammophon, 2003
^ Leonard, James. Prometheus ("Bedecke deinen Himmel"), song for voice & piano, D. 674 at AllMusic (Analysis)
^ Wolf considered Schubert's "Ganymed" and "Prometheus" unsatisfactory, in part because "a truly Goethean spirit" could only be fulfilled in the "post-Wagnerian era", according to a Wolf letter to Emil Kaufmann , noted in Scott Messing, Schubert in the European Imagination: Fin-de-siècle Vienna , 2007, p. 192, note 57.
^ Kravitt, Edward F., The Lied: Mirror of Late Romanticism , p. 65. Yale University Press , 1996, ISBN 978-0-300-06365-3
^ Schubert arr. Reger: Orchestral Songs at AllMusic
"Prometheus", D. 674 (Schubert, Franz) : Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
"Prometheus" on YouTube , Matthias Goerne (baritone), Andreas Haefliger (piano)
"Prometheus" – Max Reger orchestration on YouTube, Thomas Quasthoff , Chamber Orchestra of Europe , Claudio Abbado
"Rhetoric, form, and sovereignty in Schubert’s 'Prometheus' D. 674" thesis by Erica Brady Angert to Louisiana State University (57 pages, 515 KB )
"Prometheus" – Art song by Schubert, Franz D. 674 , orchestration by Carl Nielsen
Part songs Lieder
"Der Taucher ", D 77
"Gretchen am Spinnrade ", D 118
"Rastlose Liebe ", D 130
"Der Mondabend ", D 141
"Amphiaraos ", D 166
"Die Bürgschaft ", D 246
"Heidenröslein ", D 257
"Vaterlandslied ", D 287
"Hermann und Thusnelda ", D 322
"Erlkönig ", D 328
"Der König in Thule ", D 367
"Der Wanderer ", D 489
"Wiegenlied", D 498
"Der Tod und das Mädchen ", D 531
"An die Musik ", D 547
"Die Forelle ", D 550
"Prometheus ", D 674
"Willkommen und Abschied ", D 767
"Der Zwerg ", D 771
"Auf dem Wasser zu singen ", D 774
"Du bist die Ruh' , D 776
"Lachen und Weinen ", D 777
"Nacht und Träume ", D 827
"Ave Maria ", D 839
"Im Frühling ", D 882
"Ständchen", D 889
"An Sylvia ", D 891
"Der Doppelgänger ", D 957 No. 13
"Der Hirt auf dem Felsen ", D 965
Cycles Multiple