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Composer and choir master Clytus Gottwald comments on his transcription of Anton Weberns Im Sommerwind (1904) as follows: First of all I had to eliminate all those parts of the source material that had strictly instrumental designs, reducing the work to quote Wolfgang Rihm to its singable remnant. What was so surprising, however, was that such a reduction did not lead to a meaningless sequence of fragments, but that the fragments turned out to be with regard to harmony and motifs so closely related to each other that the result proved an impressive work within a work. The reduction uncovered something that could be called the essence of the work.
In order to make the singable remnant singable, I used fragments from Bruno Willes poem Im Sommerwind, which Webern had used as a basis for his composition

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