Trakl

British  

/ ˈtrɑːkəl /

noun

1. Georg . 1887–1914, Austrian poet, noted for his expressionist style: died of a drug overdose while serving as a medical officer in World War I

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Example Sentences

The organisers said Fosse could be compared to previous great writers like fellow Norwegian Tarjei Vesaas as well as Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, Georg Trakl and Franz Kafka.

From BBC

These range from Beethoven’s “Die Trommel gerühret” to Wolfgang Rihm’s “Untergang,” a contemporary setting of a nightmarish text by the Expressionist poet Georg Trakl.

From New York Times

It superimposes settings for soprano of four poems, three of them by the German expressionist Georg Trakl, the fourth by Sylvia Plath, on the formal outline of a four-movement symphony.

From The Guardian

The 1993 Lamentations for four voices and a consort of viols creates a haunting landscape from settings of poems by Wilfred Owen, Lorca, Hart Crane, Petrarch and Georg Trakl, while Green from 2007 is a dramatic scena for strings, a clash of instrumental voices and musical ideas.

From The Guardian