Orchestral and ensemble works
1995
Three pieces for Orchestra (Drei Orchesterstücke)
based on a piano music by Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Year of composition 1995
Duration 20 minutes
I Pietà
II Funeral March
III Reveille
World premiere
World premiere 5. july 1996
München · Musica viva
Sinfonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Conductor Lorin Maazel
Comment
This is an orchestration and a free adaption of three movements from a Hartmann piano sonata, entitled “27. April 1945” which the composer wrote after having been the terrified eye-witness to an endless, miserable stream of prisoners from the Dachau concentration camp. The music contains a number of quotations from Jewish folk music as well as from campaign songs of the international worker’s movement. It is an expression of sympathy, indignation and solidarity with the victims of nazifascism.
Hans Werner Henze
Instrumentation
| 3 Flauti | 2° anche Ottavino 3° anche Piccolo e Flauto contralto |
| 2 Oboi | |
| 1 Corno inglese | |
| 1 Heckelphon | |
| 2 Clarinetti | |
| 1 Clarinetto basso | |
| 1 Sassofono | contralto e tenore |
| 2 Fagotti | |
| 1 Controfagotto | |
| 4 Corni | |
| 3 Trombe | |
| 3 Tromboni | |
| 1 Tuba | |
| Timpani | |
| Percussione | Piatti sospesi Tamtam (piccolo, medio e basso) Tomtom Grancassa Grancassa e piatto Tamburo piccolo Crotales Campane tubolari Glockenspiel Vibrafono Marimba [per 2] |
| Arpe | |
| Celesta | |
| Pianoforte | |
| Archi |