Manfred Trojahn
Mendelssohn's Seagulls (2012)
a song without words for violoncello solo
Manfred Trojahn
Mendelssohn's Seagulls (2012)
a song without words for violoncello solo
- Instrumentation Cello
- Composer Manfred Trojahn
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- Publisher Bärenreiter Verlag
- Order no. BA11043-DL
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Manfred Trojahn on the genesis and title of his virtuoso, impressive solo work: "Admittedly, I don't know whether he had seagulls, but as he was born in Hamburg, he will not have gone through life without the impression of seagull cries. I also don't know whether seagulls played a role for him in Rome.
I myself was highly astonished when I was disturbed - well, not annoyed, but still disturbed - by violently rhythmic seagull cries at the Villa Massimo a year or two ago. I wanted to put a bassoon solo on paper and the seagulls were disturbing me. Until I came up with the idea of basing the piece on exactly these sequences of notes I had heard. And the tone sequences from the bassoon solo are now again the basis for the cello piece - that's how the titles come about ...
Of course, the cello winds its way virtuosically out of the seagull motif and gets into the 'elfin' chasing, which Mendelssohn brought into the music, which he repeatedly makes appear in his pieces, and it ends up as a cabaletta. Now cabalettas are not very representative of Mendelssohn, but when I was composing I really wanted to put this cabaletta in this place and so we'll get on with it, Mendelssohn and I, especially as he then comes into his own again with the scurrying along and of course with the tonal ending, which is more significant for his time than for mine ... right???"
I myself was highly astonished when I was disturbed - well, not annoyed, but still disturbed - by violently rhythmic seagull cries at the Villa Massimo a year or two ago. I wanted to put a bassoon solo on paper and the seagulls were disturbing me. Until I came up with the idea of basing the piece on exactly these sequences of notes I had heard. And the tone sequences from the bassoon solo are now again the basis for the cello piece - that's how the titles come about ...
Of course, the cello winds its way virtuosically out of the seagull motif and gets into the 'elfin' chasing, which Mendelssohn brought into the music, which he repeatedly makes appear in his pieces, and it ends up as a cabaletta. Now cabalettas are not very representative of Mendelssohn, but when I was composing I really wanted to put this cabaletta in this place and so we'll get on with it, Mendelssohn and I, especially as he then comes into his own again with the scurrying along and of course with the tonal ending, which is more significant for his time than for mine ... right???"
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