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Schoenberg, Arnold: Opus/Catalogue Number Op./Cat. No. Op.21 I-Catalogue Number I-Cat. No. IAS 31 Movements/Sections Mov'ts/Sec's: 21 numbers Mondestrunken Columbine Der Dandy Eine blasse Wäscherin Valse de Chopin Madonna Der kranke Mond Nacht (Passacaglia) Gebet an Pierrot Raub Rote Messe Galgenlied Enthauptung Die Kreuze Heimweh Gemeinheit ...
by Arnold Schoenberg From Pierrot Lunaire (1912) Op. 21. If you would like to use our texts and translations, please click here for more information. Text & Translation. Display Inline. Valse de Chopin. German source: Otto Erich Hartleben. Wie ein blasser Tropfen Bluts. Färbt die Lippen einer Kranken, Also ruht auf diesen Tönen.
opening measures of "Valse de Chopin," No. 5 in the cycle. Here Schoenberg instructs the performer to move from one piece to the other with no pause, as if the pieces were attached. We note that the final sonority of "Eine blasse Wäscherin," B-flat - A - D, is found embedded in the left-hand arpeggio which opens "Valse de Chopin."
5. Valse de Chopin As a lingering drop of blood Stains the lip of a consumptive, So this music is pervaded By a morbid deathly charm. Wild ecstatic harmonies Disguise the icy touch of doom, As a lingering drop of blood Stains the lip of a consumptive.6 Ardent, joyful, sweet and yearning, Melancholic sombre waltzes, Coursing ever through my senses
