Bella Máté
Aeolus
for string quartet
Bella Máté
Aeolus
for string quartet
- Instrumentation String Quartet (2 Violins, Viola and Cello)
- Composer Bella Máté
- Edition Score and Parts
- Publisher Editio Musica Budapest
- Order no. EMB15172
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Description:
Máté Bella writes:
I composed my composition Aeolus for the concert by the name Esszenciák (Essences) of the creative group Studio 5. The topic of the concert focused on how contemporary composers related to Hungarian folk music. To achieve this objective, I chose the most ancient form of Hungarian folk music, a folk song. I arranged the song ''Halál, halál...'' (''O death, o death...'') from the Transylvanian Plain, as sung by Ágnes Herczku, for string quartet in such a fashion that it also includes improvisations by the folk singer.
The Transylvanian Plain is a hilly territory without forests, enclosed by rivers in the Transylvanian Basin. The piece aims to evoke the fictitious state when one, lying on the meadow, is listening to the blowing of the wind - which, in my case, ''blows'' the folk song into one's ears through the harmonics of the strings. The title of the composition refers to Aeolus, a Greek god, who, according to mythology, kept wind imprisoned in a stronghold of rocks on the island of Strongyle, and he could let it loose over the sea as he saw fit.
The piece was premiered by the Sonus Cordis Quartet (Eszter Krulik, Róza Lachegyi, Győző Máté, Judit Szabó) on 13th April 2021, in Budapest.
I composed my composition Aeolus for the concert by the name Esszenciák (Essences) of the creative group Studio 5. The topic of the concert focused on how contemporary composers related to Hungarian folk music. To achieve this objective, I chose the most ancient form of Hungarian folk music, a folk song. I arranged the song ''Halál, halál...'' (''O death, o death...'') from the Transylvanian Plain, as sung by Ágnes Herczku, for string quartet in such a fashion that it also includes improvisations by the folk singer.
The Transylvanian Plain is a hilly territory without forests, enclosed by rivers in the Transylvanian Basin. The piece aims to evoke the fictitious state when one, lying on the meadow, is listening to the blowing of the wind - which, in my case, ''blows'' the folk song into one's ears through the harmonics of the strings. The title of the composition refers to Aeolus, a Greek god, who, according to mythology, kept wind imprisoned in a stronghold of rocks on the island of Strongyle, and he could let it loose over the sea as he saw fit.
The piece was premiered by the Sonus Cordis Quartet (Eszter Krulik, Róza Lachegyi, Győző Máté, Judit Szabó) on 13th April 2021, in Budapest.