Good-bye Vienna (vocal score for orchestral arrangement)

For voice and piano. orchestral arrangement available on rental Julius Bürger’s Good-bye, Vienna belongs to the iconic Wienerlied style whose lyrics typically center on themes of love, loss, joy and scenes from everyday life. Among other genres synonymous with the city, such as the waltz and Schrammelmusik, the Wienerlied is perhaps the most reflective of the soul of Vienna. Good-bye, Vienna is Bürger’s last known work from an impressive oeuvre spanning over 70 years (1915-1988) and places Bürger amongst other notable composers of the genre such as Rudolf Sieczyński, Robert Stolz, Hermann Leopoldi and Fritz Kreisler. It is a quintessential ‘Viennese’ lied which offers poignant insight into the composer’s inner world as he reflects on a life of displacement, upheaval and reveals his own Sehnsucht (intense longing) for the past in this bittersweet ode to the city of his birth. Bürger completed the music and lyrics for Good-bye, Vienna on February 24th, 1988, from his apartment in Queens, NY at the age of 90; nearly fifty years after leaving Europe due to the annexation (Anschluss) of Austria by the Third Reich. — Dr. Ryan Hugh Ross Lyrics Einmal lebte ich in Wien, im schönen Wien. Aber jetzt ist es nicht mehr mein Wien. Wo sind die Zeiten, die frohen Zeiten, Da jung ich war voll Lebensmut? Sie sind vergangen, so schnell, so schnell vergangen, es war ein Traum, ich merkt es kaum. Wo sind die Spiele des frühen Lebens? Er strebt zum Ziele, kann es nicht fassen Das Glück in seiner Hand, Weiß nicht wie es entschwand. Wo sind die Zeiten, die schönen Zeiten, Sie sind vorbei, so schnell vorbei! Once I lived in Vienna, in beautiful Vienna But it is no longer my Vienna Where are the times, the joyful times When I was full of youthful courage? They have passed, so quickly gone It was a dream, I hardly noticed its passing Where are the playful games of early life? The goal for which he strove cannot be reached The happiness in your hand, I know not what became of it Where are those times, those joyful times They are gone, so quickly gone! English Translation by Dr. Ryan Hugh Ross © 2018. CardiM, Wales UK About the Exilarte Edition G. Schirmer/Wise Music’s Exilarte Edition exclusively publishes works by composers who were persecuted, forced into exile, or murdered by the Nazi regime. All original manuscripts of these works are archived in the Exilarte Center at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in Austria.