Geographical Fugue
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Geographical Fugue
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The Geographical Fugue or Fuge aus der Geographie is the most famous piece for spoken chorus by Ernst Toch.
Toch was a prominent composer in 1920s Berlin, and singlehandedly invented the idiom of the "Spoken Chorus". The work was composed as the third and final movement in Toch's suite Gesprochene Musik. The suite was designed to be recorded by a chorus on gramophone records at 78 rpm, then "performed" in concert by replaying the records at a much higher speed. As Toch wrote in his original prog
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Work for spoken chorus by German composer Ernst Toch
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2023-11-12T20:22:11Z
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