"Darmstädter-Wurstzwiefacher" by Wilfried Hiller - Petrushka Project

Описание: Oliver Triendl plays "Darmstädter-Wurstzwiefacher".

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The Petrushka Project is an unprecedented international live concert and commissioning initiative presented by Schott Music, boasting premieres of 75 solo piano pieces by a wide range of composers around the world. The Project affords a rare and unique opportunity for the infusion of a huge variety of new piano works into the international repertoire. Composers from 26 countries took part in Petrushka Project 2012, and the Project will be continued in the coming years.

"How can I properly summarise a musical birthday greeting for my publisher at Schott in 60 seconds? I have attempted to compose a type of polka zwiefacher with "compressed" threes and anticipated emphases -- in other words, an attempt to allow a Darmstadt sausage to perform a Bavarian dance. The title of the piece harks back to a memorable meeting which took place exactly fifty years ago at the Darmstadt Summer Courses. I had only just fled from the confines of the Augsburg monastery and was eager to experience all that contemporary music had to offer. During a break of a lecture by Stockhausen, I was sitting frustrated in the improvised canteen opposite an extremely tall and friendly looking man with a plate of sausage and potato salad in front of him: he was only eating the salad and left the sausage at the side of his plate. As I was still hungry, I asked him if I could eat the sausage to which he assented willingly. This was how we got talking to each other.

"What do you do for a living?" he asked me. "I am going to become a composer", I replied. "That's interesting. I am going to become a publisher." These three sentences marked the beginning of my long friendship with Peter Hanser-Strecker, my publisher at the renowned music publishing house Schott.

Fifty years after this meeting, I have composed this piece for him in which I rail against everything they attempted to drum into us in Darmstadt: Music is not to be enjoyed!

Music for children is taboo!

Thirds, octaves and fifths are forbidden!

There is nothing to laugh about in CONTEMPORARY MUSIC!

I have called my dance "Darmstädter-Wurstzwiefacher" according to a motif from my son Carl Amadeus to commemorate the meeting with CPHS." (Wilfried Hiller)


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