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Three Kinds Of
music for baroque clarinet in D
(ca. 10 Min.; comp. & FP: 2002)
dedicated to
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Bernhard Kösling,
on the suggestion of Martin McWilliam
This piece consists of three movements. The first movement is an uninterrupted, accelerating canon,
which ends with a small Mozart reference. The second movements plays with a large number of
different sound types, for which definite movement forms are designated. Each of these motifs has
its own center within the structure of this movement, so that the dense sonorities continuously
shift. Lastly, the third movement, labelled with the instruction "without time and tempo", uses
seven very gentle tones, which are then transformed into a single sound through multiphonics,
leaving nothing else. The clarinettist moves around throughout the entire duration of the piece,
so that the various timbral qualities of a particular hall play an important rôle.
In the second movement two texts by Franz Kafka are incorporated. They read:
„The true path follows a rope, which is not stretched across the heavens, but is instead
quite near to the earth. It appears most definitely to induce stumbles, in order to walk along
it.“
„Three kinds of:
looking at oneself as something strange, forgetting the glance, retaining that image.
Or only two kinds, because the third engulfs the second.“
(1st quote from: Betrachtungen über Sünde, Leid, Hoffnung und den wahren Weg. Fischer, Frankfurt
am Main 1992, vol. Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem Lande, p. 30.
2nd quote from: Das dritte Oktavheft, Eintragung 6. Dez. 1917, p. 67.)
First performance:
2002 April 21: Landesmuseum Oldenburg, Schloß Oldenburg,
Opening of the exhibition of Martin McWilliam;
→ Bernhard Kösling, baroque clarinet in D
further performances:
2002 October 11: Clarinet Symposium Düsseldorf
2002 October 20: Martin-Luther-Kirche Edewecht-Süddorf
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