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Cristóbal Halffter
Halffter: Don Quijote
Übersetzer: Sieglinde Oehrlein
UE31146
Type: Studienpartitur
Languages: Spanisch
Format: 297 x 420 mm
Pages: 232
ISMN: 979-0-008-06215-5
Description
To look into Cristóbal Halffter’s music is always to peer into his life as well. This becomes clear enough when one considers his opera Don Quijote. Halffter chose material by an author who, like himself, always worked in the area of conflict between artistic freedom and political tyranny. Yet in their art both these figures committed themselves exclusively to humanity. With his Don Quijote Cervantes became a Spanish national hero; Halffter, through his artistic autonomy under Franco’s dictatorship, grew into a moral authority, a role model for a new Spain committed to humanist values. Halffter’s opera is based on the essential scenes of his literary source but, not least in its fictitious conversations between Cervantes and his knightly hero, develops into a grandiose discussion on the political meaning of mythic dreaming. Halffter cloaks this utopian subject matter in a powerful musical language that runs the gamut of almost all the emotions, from the ethereal amorous whispers of Dulcinea and Aldonza, to the brutal passion of the fanatic crowd which believes that it has destroyed the works of the West’s greatest spirits by fire.
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Type: Studienpartitur
Languages: Spanisch
Format: 297 x 420 mm
Pages: 232
ISMN: 979-0-008-06215-5