"Der Wein" (The Wine) is a concert aria for soprano and orchestra, composed in 1929 by Alban Berg. The lyrics are from Stefan George's translation of three poems from Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal, as is the secret text of Berg's Lyric Suite.[1] "Die Seele des Weines" (The Wine's Soul), "Der Wein der Liebenden" (The Wine of Lovers), and "Der Wein des Einsamen" (The Wine of the Lonely One). The aria was commissioned by and dedicated to Ruzena Herlinger [de].[2] She and Hermann Scherchen premiered it in Königsberg on 4 June 1930.
^"Theme Information – Berg, Alban: 'Der Wein' (1929)", citing David John Headlam, The Music of Alban Berg (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996), p. 290 ISBN9780300064001
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