2 violins, viola,
violoncello
SKU:
FG.55011-875-1
Composed by Lotta
Wennäkoski. Classical,
contemporary. Score &
parts. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-875-1. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-875-1).
Lotta
Wennäkoski's Pige
(2021-2022) for string
quartet was commissioned
to be paired with the
Death and the Maiden
quartet by Franz Schubert
(pige is Danish for
girl). The composer
tells:
The first
movement Vorüber, ach,
vorüber! is based on
the first half of
Schubert’s lied
lying behind his The
Death and the Maiden
quartet. The
maiden’s song in
the beginning of the lied
has not found its way to
his string quartet, so I
wanted to use this
material in mine. The
second move-ment Daktylus
borrows its idea from the
haunting pulse of
Schubert’s chant
of Death. Something
fierce and something
soundless can be heard
here - along with other
variants on the dactyl
rhythm. For example,
I’ve written a
lyrically flowing melody
based on the same
rhythmic pattern
(long-short-short).
Schubert’s
quartet is wonderful
music and of course a
cornerstone of the
repertoire, and the death
and the maiden is a
strong, tempting and
gloomy motif in art
history. On the other
hand, I just
couldn’t help
seeing the motif also as
a - somewhat passé -
image of an old male
desiring the ulti-mately
young female body. The
third movement thus turns
its gaze to the girl
herself. Pigen og
scrapbogen, The Girl and
the Scrapbook, is joyful
textural music - compiled
of fragments and freely
handled quotations that
might spring to mind when
thinking of a vital
girl’s
life.
This
product includes the full
score and the set of
parts.
Movements:<
br>1. Vorüber, ach,
vorüber!
2.
Daktylus
3. Pigen og
scrapbogen (das
Mädchen und das
Scrapbuch)
The
first movement can also
be performed separately
as a prologue to The
Death and the Maiden
string quartet by Franz
Schubert.
Girl
