Versuch über die Fuge
composer: Jörg Widmann
preface: Jörg Widmann
translator preface (English): Lindsay Chalmers-Gerbracht
translator preface (French): Dominique de Montaignac
(5th String Quartet with Soprano)
Text from the Vulgate
Commissioned work: von Juliane Banse und dem Artemis Quartett in Auftrag gegeben
Premiere: February 20, 2005 Köln, Funkhaus Wallrafplatz, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal (D) · Juliane Banse, Sopran; Artemis Quartett · Organizer: WDR
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 25' 0''
Year of composition: 2005
Difficulty: difficult
Edition: score and parts - Register: soprano
Language: Latin - German
156 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-001-15453-6
Order number: ED 20082
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Description
Many pieces with a classical cycle of movements lead to an examination of baroque counterpoint in the form of a fugue. Widmann's fifth string quartet, which closes his first cycle in this genre like a finale, wants to remain a deliberately tentative 'Versuch über die Fuge', through it's dialogue with the singing voice's quotation from the Bible: 'That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out? - Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas!'
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String Quartets (2008)
Jörg Widmann
Juliane Banse (soprano) · Leipziger Streichquartett
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