Reliquien
based on texts by Franz Schubert
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Heinz Holliger
Reliquien
based on texts by Franz Schubert
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Heinz Holliger
Reliquien

based on texts by Franz Schubert

  • Instrumentation High Voice, Clarinet and Piano
  • Composer Heinz Holliger
  • Difficulty Level
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  • Edition Score and Parts Download
  • Publisher Schott Musik
  • Order no. ED23118-DL
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Description:

  • Language: German
  • Pages: 92
  • Release: 01.04.2019
I was in the middle of a recording project featuring Franz Schubert's complete symphonies and other orchestral works, when I received a request from Anna Lucia Richter asking if I could compose a companion piece for Schubert's The Shepherd on the Rock. I was inspired by the movingly simple yet profoundly mysterious musical text Schubert had published by Robert Schumann under the title Reliquien [Relics], and a composition in three sections was born which oscillates between recitative-like sections and expansive ariosos. The beginning of Schubert's enigmatic funeral march Franz Schuberts Begräbnis- Feyer [Franz Schubert's funeral ceremony] for nine winds, written when Schubert was only 16, wanders like a phantom as a tonal shadow through the score. Heinz Holliger