Trumpet in C and piano -
advanced
SKU:
CY.CC2871
Composed by
Roger T. Petrich.
Contemporary. Solo part
and Piano accompaniment.
Published by Cherry
Classics (CY.CC2871).
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ten was
commissioned in 2005 by
Trumpeter Paul Neebe
during the composer's
vacation to do ancestral
research in the town of
Zatten, currently part of
Poland.
Roger Petrich
writes the following
about his Zatten Concerto
for Trumpet:
The
'DNA' of this compostion
tracks back to my
great-grandfather and the
tiny Plattdeutsch village
where he was born.
Zatten, [then] located in
the eastern part of
Berlin/Brandenburg is in
an area of forest and
small farms dating back
to the 1600's. My
grandfather R. T.
Petrich, whose initials I
bear, was six years old
when he, along with his
parents, sister, and
older brother left
Prussia to start a new
life in the USA.
My
own childhood memories
include many visits to
the family homestead in
Dakota Territory, where I
used to play in the barn
which hosted many summer
dances. The Dakota sky
was vast by day, and
nights could become
magical with the addition
of the Northern Lights.
Though not a professional
musician, my father kept
up his trumpet playing
all his life. In a
special way it was his
voice - a sound that
deeply imprinted all my
growing up years. All of
this is mixed together in
my Zatten
Concerto
The Zatten
Concerto is in three
movements, the two outer
movements faster and the
middle is a Largo. This
work is appropriate for
advanced
performers.
The title
Zatten (the
name of the small village
in Germany where his
family was located before
immigrating to the USA)
is spelled out in Morse
Code in the very opening
eight bars of the work.
The Concerto is
originally written for
Trumpet and String
Orchestra, this version
using a reduction for
Piano.
