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Wolfgang Rihm
Rihm: Abkehr, for orchestra
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The genesis of this work
was a commission from the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, asking Wolfgang Rihm to write a prologue to
Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 9. Rihm’s composition takes stock of Mahler’s
symphonic achievement and uses its often fractured language as its starting
point for his own deeply personal form of expression. The result runs the whole
gamut of styles between the extremes of weighty hammer blows and Adagio cantilena. There is a great
variety of percussive sounds, from tapping on wood to bright, metallic
striking, which occasionally form a bridge to the interjections of woodwind and
brass. The title Abkehr – literally ‘renunciation’ indicates that, for Rihm, it
was not a question of ‘turning towards’ but, on the contrary, of asserting his
own, uncompromising standpoint.
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Type: Partitur
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Difficulty: -
Format: 420 x 297 mm
ISBN: -
Pages: 18
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