Werner van Cleemput
The Arachne
The Poeme Of (Artistic) Pride
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Werner van Cleemput
The Arachne
The Poeme Of (Artistic) Pride
- Instrumentation Concert Band
- Composer Werner van Cleemput
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- Edition Score
- Publisher Molenaar Edition
- Order no. MOL011754100SC
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Description:
ARACHNE won the 1983 Le Havre Wind Composition Contest (France). It was premiered by the Le Havre Municipal Symphonic Band, conducted by Claude Decugis.ARACHNE is a mythological character, who was an expert in weaving. The nymphs, daughters of Zeus, pay her a visit and Arachne boasts that she could even win from the goddess Athena at a weaving contest. Disguised as an old woman, Athena, also pays a visit to Arachne, who maintains the challenge. After a severe warning, Athene takes off her disguise and accepts the challenge.They both set to work quite zealously and the resulting tapestries are both of a rare splendour. But in her work Arachne lacked respect for the gods and Athene rages. She condemns Arachne to continue to weave forever as ... a spider.