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Title & composer

Schattierungen



Composition year: 1980
Duration: 10 min

Context

Performance

Instrumentation
f Violoncello solo
Classification
Violoncell
Subject heading
Xe
Language

First performance

Date
1980-10-21
Location
Paris, Svenska institutet
Performers
Peter Schuback

Background

Tribute to
Peter Schuback
Comments about the work
Schattierungen was written for me by Miklós Maros while he was living in Berlinon a DAAD fellowship in 1980. The German title hints that this is a matter ofgradual transformations of one and the same element. In a series ofcompositions for different solo instruments, Maros seems to summarise theessential natures and possibilities of the different instruments. For the cello hehas here made use of chords which are broken, forming various arpeggiosthroughout the composition. In certain sections these variations actuallyengender melodic fragments. Schattierungen consists of our movements playedwithout a break. The first movement is built round a guitar-like play, while thesecond emanates from an expressive introduction. The third is a pizzicato ofgathering intensity, in which both pitch and pizzicatos are performed using bothhands. The fourth movement explores its way, via harmonics, to spherical state.Text: Peter Schuback. From Phono Suecia nr 45 (1990)

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The work

Composer
Title
Schattierungen
Duration
10 minutes
Composition year
1980

Information

Identification number
147205
Work administrator
SMIC (SMIC)
Format
SCORE

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Preview

Sheet music sample (PDF)
Violoncello