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Uncovering the Voice
The Cleansing Power of Song
Valborg Werbeck-Svärdström
Foreword by Schriefer Jürgen
Afterword by Eugen Kolisko
Translated by Peter Luborsky
Foreword by Schriefer Jürgen
Afterword by Eugen Kolisko
Translated by Peter Luborsky
Paperback
May 2008
9781855842090
More details
- Publisher
Rudolf Steiner Press - Published
6th May 2008 - ISBN 9781855842090
- Language English
- Pages 240 pp.
- Size 5.5" x 8.5"
$26.00
Through experiential exercises and careful reasoning, Uncovering the Voice provides a new, spiritually enlivened interpretation of the processes involved in singing. It develops knowledge of the essential nature of song, and summons us to work for the purity and preservation of true singing.
First published in Germany in 1938, Uncovering the Voice disappeared under the weight of political events and the Second World War and was not republished until the 1970s. The new English edition of this classic work includes a biographical account of the author by Jürgen Schriefer, as well as previously unpublished photographs.
Valborg Werbeck-Svärdström
Valborg Werbeck-Svärdström was an accomplished and talented opera singer. Rather than following the singing traditions of her time, however, she sought to work from a new perspective that allowed for a profound spiritual understanding of the human voice. In 1924, Rudolf Steiner, with whom she had collaborated for over twelve years, encouraged her to represent the Schule der Stimmenthullung (School for Uncovering the Voice), the first anthroposophical singing school. This was a pioneering task, and she carried it out energetically and faithfully until her death in 1972 at the age of 92.
