Fälscherlieder (2016)
Fälscherlieder (2016)
for 6 voices, 2 pianists and 2 percussionists – 20’00
Text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Christian Schlegel (used with permission)
Additional text by Wilhelm Bornemann and Guillaume de Machaut (© 1350)
I: Mailied
II: Marking Time
III: “The Past In The Present”
IV: Am Flusse — Nachtgesang — “It Is Good”
Program note:
“If you hang them in a museum or your collection of great paintings, and if they hang long enough there,
they become real.”
-Elmyr de Hory, F for Fake (1973)
“The forgeries were genuine….”
-Orson Welles, F for Fake (1973)