Piano, elektrische organ
(harmonium) and
percussion (5 player)
SKU: HL.49006313
Chamber music No.
2. Composed by
Wilhelm Killmayer. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Edition Schott.
Classical. Score (also
Performance Score).
Composed 1972. 16 pages.
Duration 8'. Schott Music
#ED 6431. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49006313).
ISBN
9790001068468.
Wilh
elm Killmayer puts a
single note at the heart
of this composition.
Butwhereas Robert
Schumann took it as the
starting point of his
romanticism,Killmayer
doesn't allow himself the
freedom to develop poetic
melodies. Just as
Schumann deliberately
decided to live within
the constraints of a
mental asylum in
Endenich, Killmayer
favours the constraints
of a very limited tonal
space. Recurring seconds
in the piano part
illustrate the
confines in the
life of the ill composer.
Even the addition of a
vibraphone,bongo and
conga cannot overcome
these boundaries in the
end. The only option left
is to look inwards for an
escape. And when
refined tone
colours are revealed in a
dialogue between piano
and glockenspiel,
Schumann in Endenich
turns into a journey into
the consciousness of an
enigmatic fellow human
being.
Schlagzeug
I: Glockenspiel,
Ruhrtrommel, hohe
Pedalpauke; Schlagzeug
II: Glockenspiel,
Xylophon, Bongo (mittel),
Holzfass (oder grosses
Holzbrett mit Resonanz);
Schlagzeug III:
Vibraphon, Marimbaphon, 2
Congas (mittel-tief),
Ruhrtrommel; Schlagzeug
IV: Gong in c, Steinspiel
(a''), Bongo (tief),
Ruhrtrommel, Pauke in g;
Schlagzeug V: grosses
Tamtam, Gegenschlagholzer
(yoshigi), Pauke in E und
A (cis), Conga
(mittel).
Escape to Freedom
