Pictures from Childhood
Full title | Pictures from Childhood: Four Miniatures for flute (or violin) and piano | |
Date composed | 1942 | |
Details |
1. Lullaby 2. At the Chicken Farm 3. Dusk Hour 4. Rainfall Composition completed in January 1942. |
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Manuscript sources | NYPL JOB 73-132, holograph score, with completion dates at the ends of the movements, here in different order: I. Rainfall, dated 2./I. 1942; II. Dusk Hour, dated 13./I. 1942; III. Lullaby, dated 24./XI. 1941; and At the Chicken Farm, dated 7./I. 1942. A second holograph score of Lullaby (4 pg.; YU-KWP, box 15/folder 436) is undated but signed KW at the end. Here the movement has the tempo indication Moderato; in the upper right corner of p. 1 the composer, in ink, wrote "Yosemite" (scare quotes included), but the word was crossed out in pencil and replaced above with the name Karl Weigl in all capital letters. | |
Publication details | Boosey and Hawkes, 1969. | |
Availabiity | Score and part available from KWF. | |
Recordings |
9 February 1968 | New York, Town Hall: Eugene Seaman, flute; Zeinab Naderi, piano. Also on the program, with these and other artists: Weigl, Pictures and Tales (with Zeinab Naderi, piano); Harold Branch, Piano Sonata and Scherzo; Barbara Kolb, Four Approaches; Eugene Seaman, Andante for flute and piano; Tui St. George Tucker, Jakugo and Lift Up Your Heads; and Harold Seletsky, Impressions. |
17 April 1988 | London, South Bank, Purcell Room, Emigrés—A Mahler Link, A Weekend’s Celebration on the South Bank of the Music of Berthold Goldschmidt and Karl Weigl, concert 3: Cello Sonata and Two Pieces for cello and piano (Alexander Baillie and Shelagh Sutherland); Pictures from Childhood (Ingrid Culliford and Shelagh Sutherland). Also on program: Goldschmidt, Variations on a Palestine Shepherd’s Song and Clarinet Quartet. |