Fantasia gregoriana
composer: Bertold Hummel
für großes Orchester, op. 65
Premiere: 16. März 1978 Gießen · Orchester des Stadttheaters Gießen · Dirigent: Bertold Hummel
Orchestra Instrumentation: 3 (3. auch Picc.) · 2 · Engl. Hr. · 2 · Bassklar. · 2 - 4 · 3 · 3 · 1 - P. S. (Vibr. · Trgl. · 3 hg. Beck. · Sizzle-Beck. · Gong · Tamt.) (2 Spieler) - Hfe. - Str.
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 8' 0''
Year of composition: 1977
Edition: study score
Series: Music Of Our Time
32 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-001-16897-7
Order number: ED 20694
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The brief Fantasia gregoriana, op.65, is based on the Gregorian Easter Hallelujah. Like a mosaic, the individual heterogenic episodes, lyrical, dance-like, hymnal and dramatic in turn, are combined through the permanent presence of the theme into a unified whole.
The Gregorian Hallelujah is present as a type of mode in every bar of the work. The subdued introduction, characterised by the tritonically transposed structure of the original material, is followed by a sharply accentuated presentation of the theme in the bass. Over the partially engarlanded resolved variants, a first bitonal climax is reached (F minor and D major simultaneously). The dramatic development is repeated, interspersed with arioso interruptions, until the main idea is brought to culmination in brilliant instrumentation. The final chord consists of all notes of the theme.
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