Cello; Ensemble (Score)
SKU: HL.50600897
For Violoncello Solo
and Ensemble.
Composed by Bella,
Má, and té.
Contemporary Music. EMB.
Classical. Softcover. 38
pages. Duration ca 9'.
Editio Musica Budapest
#Z14934. Published by
Editio Musica Budapest
(HL.50600897).
ISBN
9790080149348.
10.25x14.25x0.353 inches.
Mate Bella.
My
composition Chang Tzu's
Dream is a homage to the
Chinese philosopher
Chuang Tzu (4th century
B.C.), who is one of the
first important figures
in Taoism. His work also
influenced Chinese poetry
and landscape painting.
One of the earliest
Chinese stories related
to dreams tells of Chuang
Tzu: in a dream he saw
himself as a butterfly,
then on awakening he
could not decide if it
was really he, Chuang
Tzu, who had dreamt he
was a butterfly, or
whether now the butterfly
was dreaming of being
Chuang Tzu. Ever since I
have been involved in
music, I have always been
fascinated by the variety
of the world that can be
created with sound. Is
its true existence
different from the
material world? Can one
be transformed into the
other? These were
precisely the questions I
discovered in Chuang
Tzu's Dream. -Mate Bella
The work won first prize
at the 2009 New Hungarian
Music Forum composer's
competition in chamber
music category. It was
premiered by Judit Szabo
and the UMZE Ensemble
conducted by Zoltan Racz
on 12 January 2009 in
Budapest.