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Classiscsonline Home » Composers » T » Toch, Ernst
Stage, Vocal and Orchestral Music
Toch enjoyed considerable success as an opera composer, before he left Germany. In America this could not continue. In 1921 he had set poems from Bethge's Die chinesische Flöte (The Chinese Flute), the textual source of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), for soprano and orchestra, using a form of recitative, and other works sometimes include spoken parts. His Cantata of the Bitter Herbs, based on the Passover Haggada, is scored for solo voices, narrator, chorus and orchestra. His symphonies often draw on extra-musical associations, sometimes indicated in their titles, as with Jephta, Rhapsodic Poem (Symphony No.5).