Alexander Goehr (b. 1932)

TurmMusik / Tower Music

for two clarinets, brass and strings with baritone solo Music Of Our Time op. 85

2 Klarinetten, Blechbläser und Streicher mit Bariton solo

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2 Klarinetten, Blechbläser und Streicher mit Bariton solo
Product Type
Study score
Author / Composer
Alexander Goehr
Product number
755909
Languages
german, english
Extent
81 Pages
Description

This major work from Alexander Goehr reflects upon the diametrically opposing roles towers can have. The composer writes ‘Towers embody the idea of climbing upwards, in the spiritual as much as in the physical sense. Their destruction can be regarded as a punishment (or as a rescue from) man’s overwhelming arrogance.’ Using texts by Franz Kafka, 17th century mystic Jacob Boehme and Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Goehr explores man’s desire to build towers to draw closer to God whilst the wor...

Content
  • I Inscription of Nebukadnezzar II on the great stone tablets
  • II Fr. Kafka: The City Coat-of-Arms
  • III Jakob Boehme, Mysterium magnum
  • IV Fr. Dürrenmatt, Towerbuilding
  • V Fr. Kafka: The City Coat-of-Arms (continued)
  • VI Choral Prelude II
  • VII Isaiah 14. 13-14