Wolfgang Rihm
Samothrake
Short instrumentation: 2 2 2 2 - 4 2 3 1 - timp, perc(2), hp, str
Duration: 15'
Solos:
soprano
Instrumentation details:
1st flute
2nd flute
1st oboe
2nd oboe
1st clarinet in A
2nd clarinet in A
bassoon
contrabassoon
1st horn in F
2nd horn in F
3rd horn in F
4th horn in F
1st trumpet in C
2nd trumpet in C
1st trombone
2nd trombone
3rd trombone
bass tuba
timpani
1st percussion
2nd percussion
harp
violin I
violin II
viola
violoncello
double bass
Rihm - Samothrake for high soprano and orchestra
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Wolfgang Rihm
Rihm: SamothrakeOrchestration: für hohen Sopran und Orchester
Type: Klavierauszug
Language: Deutsch
Wolfgang Rihm
Rihm: SamothrakeOrchestration: für hohen Sopran und Orchester
Type: Studienpartitur (Sonderanfertigung)
Language: Deutsch
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Work introduction
The title is the one that Max Beckmann gave to his
poetry. This poetic text is the ‘basis’ of my composition. It is not programme
music in the actual sense. I believe that in Samothrake the focus is
not as much on the individual state of a subjectively prejudiced protagonist (such
as in Schönberg’s Erwartung, for example),
it is rather an outlook on the state of the world. Perhaps articulated by a
visionary? The mythological Samothrace is a place that is determined very much
by female intuition: the Gods that were worshipped there fall under the term
’Great Mother‘ (Aphrodite, Demeter, Hecate).
Wolfgang Rihm