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Sieben Fragmente für Orchester

in memoriam Robert Schumann
orchestra
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‘At present, I am writing a piece for orchestra which I think I am going to call
“Fragmente”…’ said Aribert Reimann in October 1987. His idea to incorporate three fragments of Schumann’s Geistervariationen (‘Ghost Variations’) theme in Eb major into the work only came later. Often described as Schumann’s ‘last thought’, the variations were written shortly before his attempted suicide. Inspired by his simultaneous work on the orchestration of Gedichte der Maria Stuart, Reimann wanted to refer to the circumstances of Schumann’s life in Endenich. It was then that he discovered the relationship of this theme to the motifs already composed by him. It is very similar to the chant of the solo violin in the slow movement of Schumann’s Violin Concerto.

In Reimann‘s work, the lyrical character of Schumann‘s original remains untouched. The breaking up of the theme into the third, fifth and seventh fragments, however, makes the transition from dreamlike imagination to suicidal depression quite clear.

Orchestral Cast

Picc · 1 · Altfl. · 1 · Engl. Hr. · Es-Klar. · 1 · Bassklar. · 2 · Kfg. - 4 · 4 · 2 · 1 - Hfe. - Str. (12 · 10 · 8 · 8 · 6)

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Title:
Sieben Fragmente für Orchester
in memoriam Robert Schumann
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1988
Duration:
14 ′
World Premiere:
September 25, 1988 · Hamburg (D)
Conductor: Gerd Albrecht · Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Commissioned work :
Auftragswerk des Philharmonischen Staatsorchesters Hamburg
Series:

Technical Details

Product number:
LS 3370-01

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  • Sieben Fragmente für Orchester
    Conductor: Dima Slobodeniouk
    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
    November 8, 2018 | Berlin (Germany) , Philharmonie
    20:00
  • Sieben Fragmente für Orchester
    Conductor: Hermann Bäumer
    Orchestra: Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz
    October 13, 2018 | Mainz (Germany) , Staatstheater
    20:00
  • Sieben Fragmente für Orchester
    Conductor: Hermann Bäumer
    Orchestra: Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz
    October 12, 2018 | Mainz (Germany) , Staatstheater
    20:00
  • Sieben Fragmente für Orchester
    Conductor: Alejo Pérez
    Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
    April 22, 2017 | Ludwigshafen (Germany) , Konzertsaal im Pfalzbau
  • Sieben Fragmente für Orchester
    Conductor: Alejo Pérez
    Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
    April 21, 2017 | Kaiserslautern (Germany) , Fruchthalle
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