Turmmusik op.85 : Alexander Goehr

Titel (DE): TurmMusik / Tower Music op. 85 - for two clarinets, brass and strings with baritone solo
Titel (EN): TurmMusik / Tower Music op. 85 - for two clarinets, brass and strings with baritone solo
Titel (FR): TurmMusik / Tower Music op. 85 - for two clarinets, brass and strings with baritone solo
Komponist / Composer: Goehr, Alexander
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Opus: op. 85
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Besetzung / Instrumentation: 2 Klarinetten, Blechbläser und Streicher mit Bariton solo / 2 clarinets, brass and strings with solo baritone
Besetzungsdetails: 2cl(preferably in C but if unavailable in Eb)-3hn.3tpt(3.flugelhn in Bb).3tbn(alto, 2ten).tba-str
Kompositionsjahr / Date of Composition: 2009 - 2010
Aufführungsdauer / Duration: 30'
Verlag / Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Erscheindungsdatum / Date of Publishing: 06.06.2014
Ausgabe / Publication: Studienpartitur - Study score -
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Seiten / Pages: 84
Verarbeitung: Rückendrahtheftung - Saddle-wire stitching
Schwierigkeitsgrad / Difficulty: - -
Sprache / Language: Englisch Deutsch
Reihe / Series: Musik unserer Zeit
ISMN: M-2201-3466-1
ISMN-13: 979-0-2201-3466-1
ISMN-EAN: 9790220134661
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This major work from Alexander Goehr reflects upon the diametrically opposing roles towers can have. The composer writes Towers embody the idea of climbing upwards, in the spiritual as much as in the physical sense. Their destruction can be regarded as a punishment (or as a rescue from) man's overwhelming arrogance.' Using texts by Franz Kafka, 17th century mystic Jacob Boehme and Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Goehr explores man's desire to build towers to draw closer to God whilst the works feel nothing but despair at the fruitfulness of such a task.

I Inscription of Nebukadnezzar II on the great stone tablets - II Fr. Kafka: The City Coat-of-Arms - III Jakob Boehme, Mysterium magnum - IV Fr. Dürrenmatt, Towerbuilding - V Fr. Kafka: The City Coat-of-Arms (continued) - VI Choral Prelude II - VII Isaiah 14. 13-14

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This major work from Alexander Goehr reflects upon the diametrically opposing roles towers can have. The composer writes Towers embody the idea of climbing upwards, in the spiritual as much as in the physical sense. Their destruction can be regarded as a punishment (or as a rescue from) man's overwhelming arrogance.' Using texts by Franz Kafka, 17th century mystic Jacob Boehme and Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Goehr explores man's desire to build towers to draw closer to God whilst the works feel nothing but despair at the fruitfulness of such a task.

I Inscription of Nebukadnezzar II on the great stone tablets - II Fr. Kafka: The City Coat-of-Arms - III Jakob Boehme, Mysterium magnum - IV Fr. Dürrenmatt, Towerbuilding - V Fr. Kafka: The City Coat-of-Arms (continued) - VI Choral Prelude II - VII Isaiah 14. 13-14