René Staar
Divertissement Suisse No 1 op. 10/1
for 3 clarinets in B flat
René Staar
Divertissement Suisse No 1 op. 10/1
for 3 clarinets in B flat
- Instrumentation Clarinet Trio
- Composer René Staar
- Edition Score and Parts
- Publisher Strauss Edition Wien / Verlagsgruppe Hermann
- Order no. VGH2341-71
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Description:
A stay of almost five years in the Swiss UN city Geneva led to the conception of the composers first large-scale cyclical project, the Divertissements Suisses. The first of these Divertissements for three clarinets was composed in autumn 1983 and took its inspiration from the spiritual proximity to a place by Lake Geneva that had served Igor Stravinsky as refuge during the First World Warin the same way that classicism in general also influenced the piece. Two minuets, a two-part song form, and a rondo thoroughly follow the 250-year-old tradition of the Viennese classical divertimento, although the unique harmonic structure speaks the musical language of the late 20th century.