Teiresias
composer: Jörg Widmann
translator preface (English): Lindsay Chalmers-Gerbracht
translator preface (French): Dominique de Montaignac
Commissioned work: Auftragswerk der Stiftung Berliner Philharmoniker
Premiere: May 20, 2009 Berlin, Philharmonie, Kammermusiksaal (D) "Hommage an Claudio" · Mitglieder der Berliner Philharmoniker
Instrumentation: 6 double basses
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 14' 0''
Year of composition: 2009
Difficulty: difficult
Edition: score and parts
Series: Double-Bass Library
44 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-001-17043-7
Order number: KBB 13
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'Ein Orakelspruch für sechs Kontrabässe' (An oracle for six double-basses) – this is how Widmann calls his composition which he wrote upon commission of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra on the occasion of the 75th birthday of the conductor Claudio Abbado. The subtle theme seems to be the saga of Teiresias, the blind prophet, from Greek mythology. According to Widmann himself, he imagined a sound for the unusual instrumentation of six double-basses that 'is both blind and seeing' in its enigmatic whispering.
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