36″ x 48″
Oil on Canvas
Private Collection – Toronto, Ontario
“Rise again, yes, rise again,
Will you My dust,
After a brief rest!
Immortal life! Immortal life
Will He who called you, give you”…..
Die Auferstehung – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
“Die shall I in order to live.
Rise again, yes, rise again,
Will you, my heart, in an instant!
That for which you suffered,
To God will it lead you!”
New text added at the end of Die Auferstehung by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
World premiere (complete): December 13, 1895, Berlin conducted by the composer.