Widmann Fever Fantasy for Piano Quintet

비트만 열병 환상곡 피아노 오중주(피아노 퀸텟)

for piano, string quartet and clarinet in Bb (bassclarinet in Bb)

Score and parts

Auftragswerk : Auftragswerk der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste

Difficulty: difficult

Performance duration: 13' 0"

Uraufführung : 27. November 1999 München, Bayerischer Rundfunk (D) · Muriel Cantoreggi, Violine; Rüdiger Lotter, Violine; Hariolf Schlichtig, Viola; Christoph Richter, Violoncello; Jörg Widmann, Klarinette; Silke Avenhaus, Klavier

초연: 1999년 11월 27일 뮌헨, Bayerischer Rundfunk (D) · Muriel Cantoreggi, 바이올린; 뤼디거 로터, 바이올린; Hariolf Schlichtig, 비올라; 크리스토프 리히터, 첼로; Jörg Widmann, 클라리넷; 실케 아벤하우스, 피아노

Year of composition: 1999

With the title of this composition, Fever Fantasy, Jörg Widmann refers to its musical air: ‘I often feel Robert Schumann‘s melodic shape to be like the amplitude of a temperature curve: nervous, flickering, feverish, an infinite number of small and large wave crests and troughs within the principal line.’

The composer approaches this sound phenomenon with a setting for acoustic instruments. Nevertheless, he succeeds in conjuring up very unusual sound spectrums. Over long sections, the notation of this score mirrors the musical progressions, containing no concrete pitches but detailed performance instructions instead. Slowly, individual tones emerge

from ascending pizzicato lines, colourless sound surfaces, sounds of harmonics roughened by tremolos, and virtuoso clarinet scales, tones that do not reveal their origin until the work ends: C - F - E - D sharp, the beginning of Schumann’s first violin sonata.

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작곡가 Widmann, Jorg (Joerg)