Composer Herman D. Koppel
Instrumentation Sopr, alto, 3 tenor, 2 bass soli + Mixed choir, 4.3.4.3/4.4.4.1/timp/perc/2 arpa/pno/cel/14.12.8.6.6
Category Orchestra
Publication year 2012
Catalogue no. B.0635
Duration 60 minutes
Moses, op. 76
(1964)
(1964)
Composer Herman D. Koppel
Instrumentation Sopr, alto, 3 tenor, 2 bass soli + Mixed choir, 4.3.4.3/4.4.4.1/timp/perc/2 arpa/pno/cel/14.12.8.6.6
Category Orchestra
Publication year 2012
Catalogue no. B.0635
Duration 60 minutes
As a Jew Herman D. Koppel had experienced the war at close quarters. The many horrors had aroused a need to react through music, and in 1963 this culminated with the oratorio Moses. The work is the largest and most personal expression of Koppel’s cultural roots in the Jewish people.
Moses is the central figure of the Jewish faith and the idea of an oratorio with him as the protagonist had been in the air for several years. One day when Koppel was reading the Old Testament something stirred, and in just two or three days he had the text ready. After that it took Koppel an amazingly short time to compose the music. In Koppel’s own words, “The work started by itself. A creative wellspring had opened up. In the course of two weeks almost the whole work had been sketched out and after six I had composed its general lines”.
The oratorio Moses is a work about a fundamental ethical stance rather than a religious persuasion. Again and again divine truths force mankind to make a choice. It is the story of man’s trial of strength with God, of mankind under the law that Koppel viewed as the fundamental condition of existence.
The oratorio has a simple structure in six sections. It tells the story of the rise of civilization, of its relationship with the given and often cruel conditions of the world, of the appearance of the prophet Moses as God’s representative to mankind, and the death of Moses. Each section ends with a soprano solo that shows mankind’s thoughts and feelings about the words that God makes Moses pass on to them.
As for the end of the work, Koppel explains: “The oratorio’s obligatory hallelujah has been transformed into the quiet resignation of the chorus. The Promised Land remains remote and unattainable”.
Moses was premiered on 21st October 1965 in a concert in the DR Concert Hall with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR conducted by Miltiades Caridis. After that, thirty years passed before Koppel, at an advanced age, had a new opportunity to hear what is perhaps his greatest work.
All categories Solo 2-6 Instruments 7+ Instruments Choir Orchestra
Variationer og Resumé over 9 Etuder af Czerny
1979 • Herman D. Koppel
Solo
Piano
Sinfonietta, op. 41
1946 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
20 minutes
2.1.2.2/2.2.1.0/timp/archi
Variationer for lille orkester, op. 27
1935 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
13 minutes
1.0.2.2/1.1.0.0/pno/10.8.4.4.2
Oldkvad, op. 24
1934 • Herman D. Koppel
Choir
4 minutes
Mixed choir
Three Songs, op. 96
1976 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
12 minutes
Voice and piano
To sange, op. 92b
1973 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
Voice and piano
Musik for strygere, op. 6
1930 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
6 minutes
String orchestra
Divertimento, op. 91
1972 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
15 minutes
String trio
Ouverture for lille orkester, op. 22
1934 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
5 minutes
2.2.2.2/2.1.0.0/timp/10.8.4.4.4
Strygekvartet nr. 1, op. 2
1929 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
21 minutes
String quartet
Three Songs, op. 90
1972 • Herman D. Koppel
Choir
8 minutes
Sopr, tenor soli + Mixed choir
Capriccio for violin og orkester, op. 23
1934 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
13 minutes
Vn solo + 2.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/timp/perc/archi
Præludium, op. 10
1931 • Herman D. Koppel
Solo
7 minutes
Cello
Introduktion, tema med variationer og epilog, op. 85
1971 • Herman D. Koppel
Solo
12 minutes
Cello
Concertino for String Orchestra No. 1, Op. 32
1938 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
17 minutes
String orchestra
Kammerkoncert, op. 83
1970 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
12 minutes
Solo vn and string orchestra
Trio, op. 11
1931 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
12 minutes
Cl, vn, vlc
Syv tostemmige stykker, op. 12
1931 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
6 minutes
2 violins
Tema med variationer, op. 8
1930 • Herman D. Koppel
Solo
7 minutes
Violin
Som du
1990 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
2 minutes
Voice, pno
Immortalitas Mortalium, op. 58
1954 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
15 minutes
Bass solo + Boys choir, 2.0.2.2/2.2.0.0/timp/arpa/archi
Duo for violin og klaver, op. 9
1930 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
4 minutes
Vn, pno
Davids 6. salme, op. 55b
1952 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
4 minutes
Sopr solo + 1.1.1.1/2.1.1.0/timp/pno/archi
Suite op. 86 for violoncel solo
1971 • Herman D. Koppel
Solo
15 minutes
Cello
Davids salmer, op. 74
1962 • Herman D. Koppel
Choir
9 minutes
Mixed choir
Strygekvartet nr. 4
1964 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
18 minutes
String Quartet
Divertimento Pastorale
1955 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
13 minutes
ob, vla, vlc
Variationer og Fuga
1929 • Herman D. Koppel
Solo
8 minutes
Piano solo
Klaverstykke, op. 7
1930 • Herman D. Koppel
Solo
5 minutes
Piano solo
Symfoni nr. 7
1961 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
30 minutes
3.2.2.2/4.3.3.1/timp/perc/archi
Klaversonate, op. 1
1928 • Herman D. Koppel
Solo
20 minutes
Piano solo
Klaversonate, op. 50
1950 • Herman D. Koppel
Solo
24 minutes
Piano solo
Duo for klarinet og fagot
1932 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
12 minutes
cl, fg
3 sange og 2 viser
1934 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
10 minutes
Voice solo + pno
15 miniaturer
1976 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
15 minutes
Ob, A-sax, cl, fg, pno
Tre sange
1971 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
9 minutes
Voice solo + pno
To sange
1982 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
5 minutes
Voice solo + pno
Fire sange
1933 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
12 minutes
Voice solo + pno
5 Salmer af David
1990 • Herman D. Koppel
7+ Instruments
6:20 minutes
Soprano and organ
3 sange
1989 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
12 minutes
Tenor solo + pno
Klaverkoncert nr. 2
1938 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
30 minutes
Piano solo + 2.2.2.2/4.2.2.0/timp/archi
Symphony No. 2
1943 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
34 minutes
2.2.2.2/4.3.3.0/timp/perc/archi
Symphony No. 1
1931 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
24 minutes
3.2.2.2/4.2.3.1/timp/perc/archi
Symphony No. 4
1946 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
30 minutes
3.2.3.2/4.3.3.1/timp/perc/cel/archi
Koncert for fløjte og orkester
1972 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
18 minutes
Flute solo + 0.2.3.2/2.0.0.0/timp/perc/cel/archi
To salmer af David, op. 55a
1951 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
6 minutes
Soprano solo + pno
Seks sange til tekst af Poul la Cour
1951 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
Soprano solo + pno
Three Songs, words from the Holy Bible
1976 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
Soprano solo + pno
Fest-Ouverture
1939 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
8 minutes
2.2.2.2/4.3.3.1/timp/perc/xyl/cel/archi
Strygekvartet No.2
1939 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
19 minutes
String Quartet
Suite for Klaver, op. 21
1934 • Herman D. Koppel
Solo
10 minutes
Piano solo
Concertino nr. 2
1957 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
20 minutes
String Orchestra
Tre sange
1990 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
8 minutes
Soprano solo + pno
Årstiderne
1957 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
17 minutes
Male voice solo + pno
Fem bibelske sange
1949 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
13:10 minutes
Female voice solo + pno
Intrada
1979 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
8 minutes
3.2.2.2/4.3.3.1/timp/perc/archi
Dialog
1977 • Herman D. Koppel
Solo
Flute solo
Giocattolo
1993 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
fl, cl, perc, pno, vlc
Musik for violin og klaver
1991 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
Violin and Piano
Koncert for fløjte og orkester
1971 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
18 minutes
Flute and Piano
4 improvisationer
1970 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
fl, vlc
Variazioni Pastorale
1975 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
fl, vl, vla, vlc
Sonatine for blæserkvintet, Op. 16
1932 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
Wind Quintet
Patch-work
1981 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
fl, arpa, vla
11 variationer over eget tema
1935 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
fl, vl, vla, vlc
Musik for Blæseroktet
1991 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
Wind Octet
Variazoni libre
1976 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
12 minutes
2 cl, Bcl, perc
Suite
1936 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
12 minutes
fl, pno, vl, vlc
9 Variations
1969 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
8 minutes
Pno, vl, vlc
Davids 42. salme
1969 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
8 minutes
Soprano solo + pno
Variations on a Jewish folk dance op. 17
1932 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
12 minutes
vl, vla, vlc
Trio
1986 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
11 minutes
cl, pno, vlc
Trio
1971 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
20 minutes
Pno, vl, vlc
Memory
1994 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
9 minutes
String Orchestra
I Dis og Drøm
1992 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
6 minutes
String Orchestra
8 Variations and Epilogue
1972 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
11 minutes
Piano solo + 0.0.2.2/2.2.0.0/3 perc/arpa/cel/0.0.0.0.0
Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra
1989 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
20 minutes
Basson solo + 2.2.2.2/2.0.0.0/perc/cel/archi
To Bibelske Sange, op. 59b
1955 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
6 minutes
Sopr solo + 2.2.2.2/2.2.0.0/timp/perc/arpa/cel/8.8.6.4.4
Skabelsens 7. Dag
1984 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
10 minutes
mixed choir, 2.2.2.2/4.3.3.1/timp/perc/arpa/pno/archi
Concertino op. 110
1983 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
15 minutes
Violin, Viola, Cello solo + 2.2.2.2/2.0.0.0/archi
Fire Gammeltestamentlige Sange
1981 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
10 minutes
Soprano solo + 2.2.2.2/4.2.2.1/timp/pno/archi
Forspil til en symfoni
1979 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
4 minutes
3.3.2.2/4.3.3.1/timp/perc/archi
Concerto for Orchestra
1978 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
23 minutes
3.2.3.2/4.3.3.1/timp/3 perc/arpa/pno/cel/archi
Cantilena Duo
1988 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
6 minutes
vl, vlc
Quartet
1986 • Herman D. Koppel
2-6 Instruments
12 minutes
pno, vl, vla, vlc
Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra
1970 • Herman D. Koppel
Orchestra
18 minutes
Obo solo + 2.0.2.2/2.0.0.0/perc/arpa/cel/archi
15 miniaturer
1976 • Herman D. Koppel
Solo
15 minutes
Piano solo