Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Das Floß der Medusa (The Raft of the Medusa) is an oratorio by the German composer Hans Werner Henze. It is regarded as a seminal work in the composer's political alignment with left-wing politics.Henze wrote it as a requiem for Che Guevara, and set it to a text by Ernst Schnabel. It tells the story of the French frigate Meduse, which ran aground off the west coast of Africa in 1816, an ignominious episode in French political and maritime history, immortalised by the painting of the same name by Théodore Géricault. The work employs a large orchestra, a speaker, a soprano, a baritone, and choruses. In the course of a performance, the chorus members move from left side of the stage, \"the Side of the Living\", to the right side, \"the Side of the Dead\". The text is principally in German, with the addition of passages in Italian drawn from Dante's Divine Comedy sung by some of the dead. Aside from the dedication, and one possible musical reference to a popular leftist slogan chant of the 1960s, \"there's very little else in the text or music arouse political emotions\", wrote one critic. She thought the work \"expertly put together, scintillating in its scoring and at [its] best moments ... a superheated, expressionist narrative.\""@en }
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- Das_Floß_der_Medusa abstract "Das Floß der Medusa (The Raft of the Medusa) is an oratorio by the German composer Hans Werner Henze. It is regarded as a seminal work in the composer's political alignment with left-wing politics.Henze wrote it as a requiem for Che Guevara, and set it to a text by Ernst Schnabel. It tells the story of the French frigate Meduse, which ran aground off the west coast of Africa in 1816, an ignominious episode in French political and maritime history, immortalised by the painting of the same name by Théodore Géricault. The work employs a large orchestra, a speaker, a soprano, a baritone, and choruses. In the course of a performance, the chorus members move from left side of the stage, \"the Side of the Living\", to the right side, \"the Side of the Dead\". The text is principally in German, with the addition of passages in Italian drawn from Dante's Divine Comedy sung by some of the dead. Aside from the dedication, and one possible musical reference to a popular leftist slogan chant of the 1960s, \"there's very little else in the text or music arouse political emotions\", wrote one critic. She thought the work \"expertly put together, scintillating in its scoring and at [its] best moments ... a superheated, expressionist narrative.\"".