Musical Compositions Based on Beckett's Writings
BERIO, LUCIANO
Sinfonia
With texts from The Unnamable
FELDMAN, MORTON
Lamental Procedures (1976)
For soprano, choir and orchestra
Published by: Universal, London
Neither (c1977)
Opera for soprano and orchestra
Published by: Universal, London
FORTNER, WOLFGANG
That Time (1977)
For voices and accompaniment
Published by: Schott
GIACOMETTI, ANTONIO
Reliqua
For alto and four instrumentalists
MS in Gaudeamus library, Amsterdam
[?] Based on poems from "Mirlitonnades"
GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN, PELLE
Songs Without (1981)
For mezzo soprano and piano
Published by: Hansen, Copenhagen
HAUBENSTOCK, RAMATI
Comédie (1986)
"Anti-opera" in one act for three voices and accompaniment
Credentials: Or "Think, think, Lucky" (1960, 13 mins)
For voice and eight musicians
HOLLIGER, HEINZ
Come and Go (45 mins)
For three actresses, singers, three recorders, three violas, three clarinets
Not I
What Where
KIM, EARL
Exercises en Route (1961-1970)
Four pieces for soprano voice and accompaniment
"... dead calm ..." (1961, text from "Addenda" in Watt)
"They Are Far Out" (1966, text from Malone Dies)
"Gooseberries, She Said" (1967, text from Krapp's Last Tape)
"... rattling on ..." (1970, text from The Unnamable)
Also exists in a music theatre version, written for the play Come and Go
Footfalls (1981)
Opera in one act for soprano, mezzo soprano, two pianos and harpsichord
Narratives (1973-1976)
Seven pieces based on texts by Beckett
"Earthlight" (1973, based on various texts)
"Melodrama 1" (1973, text from Happy Days)
"Eh Joe" (1974)
"Lines from Lessness" (1975)
"Melodrama 2" (1975, text from Enough)
"Act without Words" (1976)
"Monologues" (1976)
Also exists in music theatre version
Now and Then (1981)
For soprano and accompaniment
Texts by Anton Checkov, Samuel Beckett and W.B. Yeats
MIHALOVICI, MARCEL
Fifth Symphony with Soprano
(Opus 94)
Published by: Éditions Leduc, Paris
Based on a poem by Beckett
Krapp, ou La dernière bande
Opera
Published by: Éditions Leduc, Paris
SIKORSKI, TOMASZ
W Dali Ptak ("Afar a Bird")
For clavichord, tape and reciter
Published by: Wydawnictwo Muzyczne Agencji Autorskiej
STAHNER, KLAUS HINRICH
Momentaufnahme (1988)
For "sprechstimme" and chamber music ensemble
Published by: Breitkopf und Härtel
WILKINSON, MARK
Voices (1958[9?])
For soprano and chamber orchestra
Published by: Universal Editions, London