Piano, string quartet and
clarinet in Bb
(bassclarinet in Bb)
(P/ST) - difficult
SKU: HL.49033265
Composed by Joerg
Widmann. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. Edition Schott.
Score and Parts. Composed
1999. 132 pages. Duration
13'. Schott Music #ED
9744. Published by Schott
Music (HL.49033265).
ISBN
9790001136778.
With
the title of this
composition, Fever
Fantasy, Jorg 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
emergefrom 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.
