SSA choir, flute, cello -
Level 3
SKU:
CA.950500
Fragmente.
Composed by Wilfried
Hiller. Carus Novus;
Contemporary choral
music. German title:
Sappho. Secular choral
music. Full score.
Composed 1997. Duration
10 minutes. Carus Verlag
#CV 09.505/00. Published
by Carus Verlag
(CA.950500).
ISBN
9790007089665. Language:
German.
Sappho *
Fragments for women's
chorus, flute and cello
(1997) was commissioned
by the Arbeitskreis fur
Musik in der Jugend for
the project
KomponistInnen schreiben
fur Kinder und
Jugendchore. Thus the use
of flute and cello in
this work for women's
choir is intended to
assist intonation.
According to Hiller the
two instruments may also
represent the aulos and
lyre, the instruments
which in classical
antiquity accompanied the
declamation of poems. He
writes about the ancient
Greek poetess: With her
verses Sappho, who lived
on the Aegean island of
Lesbos, has for thousands
of years inspired poets,
visual artists and
composers to create new
works of art. In our
time, for example,
Aribert Reimann, Wilhelm
Killmayer, Iannis Xenakis
and Carl Orff have
composed monuments in
sound to her. The
fragments of her verses
which survive give rise
to speculation about what
is missing, to new
interpretations, and to
the idea of filling the
gaps with music. What
also fascinates me in
Sappho's texts are the
glowing eroticism, their
iridescent glitter, and
their constant high
tension. These poems must
be sung, especially by
women, to whom Sappho
dedicated most of these
beautiful lines.
