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    Danse Macabre (redirect from Totentanz)
    ballet by Kurt Jooss Totentanz, 1934, by Hugo Distler, inspired by the Lübecker Totentanz "Scherzo (Dance of Death)," in Op. 14 Ballad of Heroes, 1939, by Benjamin...
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    composed in 1934 for Totensonntag. The work was inspired by the medieval Lübecker Totentanz. The music is interspersed with twelve spoken texts. The motets are...
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    programme of combined choral and organ works. In 1954 Kraft created the Lübecker Totentanz (Lübeck Danse Macabre) as a new type of evening concert. The tradition...
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  • / Sein Sohn (1922) Der gestohlene Gott (1924) Medea (1926) Neuer Lübecker Totentanz (1931) Straßenecke (1931) Armut, Reichtum, Mensch und Tier (1933)...
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    Lübecker Totentanz by Bernt Notke (around 1463, destroyed in a bombing raid in 1942)...
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  • Baltic countries. Lübecker Totentanz [1954] for soloists, choir, organ, and instruments. Inspired by the Marienkirche's Totentanz painting destroyed...
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  • ballet, originally conceived as a solo, was provided by the medieval Lubecker Totentanz, a sequence of pictures portraying different types of people dancing...
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  • professor at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart. He composed the opera Lübecker Totentanz based on the art work [de] at the Marienkirche in Lübeck. Reutter...
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    cities. Although a port, and home to several shipyards, including the Lübecker Flender-Werke, Lübeck was also a cultural centre and only lightly defended...
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