Friedrich Cerha
Tagebuch
Short instrumentation: 3 2 3 3 - 4 3 3 1 - timp, perc(3), hp, str
Duration: 15'
Instrumentation details:
piccolo
1st flute
2nd flute
1st oboe
2nd oboe
1st clarinet in A
2nd clarinet in A (+bass cl(Bb))
3rd clarinet in A (+bass cl(Bb))
1st bassoon
2nd bassoon
3rd bassoon
1st horn in F
2nd horn in F
3rd horn in F
4th horn in F
1st trumpet in C
2nd trumpet in C
3rd trumpet in C
1st trombone
2nd trombone
3rd trombone
bass tuba
timpani
1st percussion
2nd percussion
3rd percussion
harp
violin I
violin II
viola
violoncello
double bass
Cerha - Tagebuch for orchestra
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Friedrich Cerha
Cerha: TagebuchOrchestration: für Orchester
Type: Studienpartitur (Sonderanfertigung)
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Work introduction
My weighty, extensive 3 Orchesterstücke, with their “confessional” expression (Berceuse céleste/Intermezzo/Tombeau), were followed in autumn 2011 by the much simpler Skizzen [Sketches] for orchestra: short pieces, transparently scored and easily comprehensible.
Even while working on them, my thoughts were turning to some other musical situations, and so I wrote eight pieces, epigrammatically tailored and even more frugal and transparent than the Skizzen. The composition is called Tagebuch since almost every piece was written in one day. Naturally, their characters vary strongly; some of them even have titles, such as Scherzo, Intermezzo and Etüde.
My objective was spontaneity of diction; paint-brushed lightly and quickly, the pieces are intended to be nothing more than good music, and – my special concern – listeners should notice nothing of the compositional work nevertheless standing behind it.
Friedrich Cerha
Translation by Grant Chorley, 2013