Georg Friedrich Haas
*16.08.1953

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Georg Friedrich Haas
in vain | for 24 instruments

Work Details
Year of composition: 2000
Scored for: for 24 instruments
Composer: Georg Friedrich Haas
Instrumentation: 2 1 2 1 - 2 0 2 0 - perc(2), hp, acc, pno, sax, vln(3), vla(2), vc(2), cb
Instrumentation details: 1st flute (+picc); 2nd flute (+picc; bass fl); oboe; 1st clarinet in Bb; 2nd clarinet in Bb (+bass cl(Bb)); soprano saxophone in Bb (+t.sax(Bb)); bassoon; 1st horn in F; 2nd horn in F; 1st trombone; 2nd trombone; 1st percussion; 2nd percussion; harp; accordion; piano; 1st violin; 2nd violin; 3rd violin; 1st viola; 2nd viola; 1st violoncello; 2nd violoncello; contrabass
Commissioned by: Kompositionsauftrag des Westdeutschen Rundfunks
Remarks: with visual interpretation (lighting design)
Duration (min): 70
Dedication: Sylvain Cambreling gewidmet
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World Première
Location: Funkhaus Wallrafplatz Köln / Germany
Date: 29.10.2000
Orchestra: Klangforum Wien
Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling
Work Introduction

For listening to music, melodic lines, well-tempered pitch rasters and the metric measure Akzentstufentakt are comparable, for walking a staircase, to banisters, handrails, and usual size and placement of steps. The standard staircase relieves you from thinking about your walking movements; [...]

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The compositions of Georg Friedrich Haas have become ever more ambitious and selfassured. In the one-hour, twenty-four player piece in vain, movements are “staged” within a complex tonal structure woven out of tempered intonation and microtonality, with racing increases in tempo and [...]

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