Flute, piano
SKU:
BR.EB-8285
Composed
by York Holler. Solo
instruments; Softcover.
Edition Breitkopf. World
premiere Cologne,
February 26, 1984. Music
post-1945. Score.
Composed 1979. 20 pages.
Duration 10'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #EB 8285.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-8285).
ISBN 9790004176016. 9
x 12 inches.
World
premiere Cologne,
February 26, 1984 For me,
one of the most
interesting aspects of
composition is to draw
the most varied
consequences from one and
the same musical idea.
Thus my pieces Umbra,
Mythos, Resonance and
Moments Musicaux, for all
their disparity, form a
group of works in that
they are based on a
common Klanggestalt, a
34-note melodic-harmonic
structure from whose
formal basis the overall
shape of the piece is
derived by projection. I
have called the method
'Gestalt composition',
Thus there are 12 clearly
differentiated formal
characters or motives,
which appear frequently
in irregular sequence and
are variously
interconnected. The
'bell' motives play a
special role here: the
piano part frequently
bears the instruction
quasi Campane,
Campanelli, Campane
grandi.(York Holler,
translated by Niall
Hoskin)
World
premiere Cologne,
February 26, 1984.