For the 2007 film, see Four Last Songs (film). For the songs by Vaughan Williams, see Four Last Songs (Vaughan Williams).
Four Last Songs
by Richard Strauss
Native name
Vier letzte Lieder
Catalogue
TrV 296
AV 150
Text
Hermann Hesse; Joseph von Eichendorff
Language
German
Composed
1948 (1948)
Scoring
soprano
orchestra
Premiere
Date
22 May 1950 (1950-05-22)
Location
Royal Albert Hall, London
Conductor
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Performers
Kirsten Flagstad
Philharmonia Orchestra
The Four Last Songs (German: Vier letzte Lieder), Op. posth., for soprano and orchestra are – with the exception of the song "Malven" (Mallows), composed later the same year – the final completed works of Richard Strauss. They were composed in 1948 when the composer was 84.
The songs are "Frühling" (Spring), "September", "Beim Schlafengehen [de]" (When Falling Asleep) and "Im Abendrot" (At Sunset). The title Four Last Songs was provided posthumously by Strauss's friend Ernst Roth, who published the four songs as a single unit in 1950 after Strauss's death.
Strauss died in September 1949. The premiere was given at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 22 May 1950 by soprano Kirsten Flagstad and the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler.
The work has no opus number and was published in 1950 after Strauss's death. It is listed as AV 150 in Mueller von Asow's thematical index, and as TrV 296 in the index of Franz [de] and Florian Trenner.[1][2]
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