Viola, piano - Level 5
SKU: BA.BA11068
Composed by Philipp
Maintz. Stapled. World
Premiere 15/08/2015,
Ulrichshausen.
Performance score, Part.
Composed 2015. 13/10
pages. Duration 12 hours.
Baerenreiter Verlag
#BA11068_00. Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
(BA.BA11068).
ISBN
9790006561988. 35.5 x 25
cm
inches.
“...
she stood leering
hideously, and much dust
sodden with tears lay
upon her
shoulders.â€
“These snippets
from Johann Heinrich
Voss's translation of
Hesiod's Shield of
Hercules, where the din
of battle is brought to a
standstill for the wink
of an eye, made me think
of music that describes
the 'inwardness' of a
particular feeling, close
to the much-cited
metaphor of an entire
life flitting past the
inner eye in the space of
a second, when, as in
Hesiod, Atropos severs
the thread of life. Viola
and piano join forces on
an equal basis to
inscribe ever more lines
and shapes which,
however, relate in their
inmost essence to
intertwining circles
laden with
melancholy.â€
(Ph
ilipp Maintz)