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Beethovens Heiligenstädter Testament
composer: Rodion Shchedrin
musical motifs: Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphonic Fragment for Orchestra
Premiere: 18. Dezember 2008 München · Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks · Dirigent: Mariss Jansons
Orchestra Instrumentation: Picc. · 2 · 2 · 2 · 2 - 3 · 2 · 3 · 0 - P. - Str. (16 · 14 · 12 · 10 · 8)
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 12' 0''
Year of composition: 2008
Edition: study score
Series: Music Of Our Time
44 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-001-17005-5
Order number: ED 20748
Description
Emotional depth and riveting virtuosity - these elements are what characterise many compositions by Rodion Shchedrin. Even though he has been a cosmopolitan for a long time, the Moscow-born Shchedrin has remained an original Russian composer whose bond with the musical folklore and poetry of his home country has never been severed.
This 'Symphonic Fragment', premiered by Mariss Jansons with the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio, refers to the life of Beethoven and the first major existential crisis of the then 31-year-old composer from Vienna. Even if Shchedrin fails to include explicit quotations, suggestions of Beethoven's 'Eroica' can well be found. The study score on sale now allows one to become thoroughly acquainted with Shchedrin's masterly skills as a composer and his virtuoso treatment of the orchestra in this work.
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