The Porazzi Fragment
composer: Gavin Bryars
musical motifs: Richard Wagner
for 21 solo strings
on a theme by Richard Wagner
Premiere: 1 December 1999 Canterbury (UK), Manley Marlowe Theatre · Primavera Chamber Orchestra · Paul Manley, conductor
Instrumentation: 21 solo-strings
Orchestra instrumentation: 11 vlns · 4 vls · 4 vc. · 2 d.b.
Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Duration: 15' 0''
Year of composition: 1999
Edition: study score
Series: Music Of Our Time
37 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-2201-1979-8
Order number: ED 12680
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Description
Commissioned by the Primavera Orchestra, and designed for the orchestra’s string formation, this short work for strings alone originates in an enigmatic, and un-published, 13 bar musical theme by Richard Wagner which appears to have been started during the period when he was composing the second act of Tristan und Isolde and finished shortly after the completion of Parsifal in Palermo, Piazza dei Porazzi.
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