Sappho, Op.49 (Volkmann, Robert)

First Publication	1865 – Pest: Gustav Heckenast
Genre Categories	Songs; For voice, orchestra; For voices with orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring the orchestra; German language

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Editor	First edition
Engraver	Leipzig: C.G. Röder.
Publisher. Info.	Pest: Gustav Heckenast, n.d.[1865]. Plate G.H. 35.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
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Work Title	Sappho
Alternative. Title	Dramatische Scene für Sopran-Solo mit Begleitung des Orchesters
Composer	Volkmann, Robert
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.	Op.49
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	IRV 43
Key	C minor
Text Incipit	Weh mir! Nun brich, o Herz!
First Performance.	1865-3-19 in Pest (or earlier?)
First Publication.	1865 – Pest: Gustav Heckenast
Librettist	composer (?)
Language	German
Dedication	Anna Carina
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	Voices: soprano Orchestra: 2 flutes/piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (B♭), 2 bassoons + 4 horns (2 in E♭, 2 in F), 2 trumpets (C), trombone(s) ? + timpani + harp + strings

Premiere date from NZM 1865 p.115.

Could this be a German translation of a Sappho sonnet?

The complete text is, in more condensed form, found @ Liedertexte und Erklärungen zu dem am 17. August 1865. (Followed a few pages later by Richard Pohl's somewhat famous essay on Liszt's Dante Symphony.)