| Am Grabe | |
| Key: | F minor |
| Catalogue: | WAB 2 |
| Type: | Secular choral work |
| Form: | Elegy |
| Language: | German |
| Dedication: | Funeral of Josephine Hafferl |
| Vocal: | choir |
(At the grave), WAB 2, is an elegy composed by Anton Bruckner in 1861, for men's voices a capella.
Am Grabe is a revised a cappella setting of the elegy Vor Arneths Grab, WAB 53. The elegy was performed on the funeral of Josephine Hafferl on 11 February 1861.
The original manuscript is stored in the archive of the Liedertafel Frohsinn.[1] The song, which was edited first by Wöß, Universal Edition, in 1924,[1] is put in Band XXIII/2, No. 13 of the German: Gesamtausgabe.[2]
In addition, an autograph slight revision of the song has been found on an undated copy of the manuscript (Mus.Hs. 2104).
The 21-bar-long, a cappella setting discarded the fourth strophe of Marinelli's text. The voice score of the first two strophes (bars 1-8) is almost identical to that of Vor Arneths Grab. The score of the third strophe is 5 bars longer. From bar 15 the score is different and ends at bars 19-21 alike bars 26-28 of the original setting.
A score with another text by Gottfried Grote has been issued by Schott Music in 1961.[3]
Not for ever is gone,who was our loving company,because who is connected to God here,will enjoy the New World there. Therefore let us praise the Lord,who chose him to go home,and will faithfully prove to usthat in suffering, consolation will not be missing. |
There is also an arrangement by Jeff Reynolds for 4-part trombone ensemble (with optional contrabass trombone part).[4]
There is only one recording of the full setting of Am Grabe:
NB: On CD LIVA 027,[5] only the first two strophes were recorded.