Felix Krieger
"Oh Luft, Du edles Element, führ hin mein Liedlein behend"
Duration: 4'
Instrumentation details:
alto flute
double bass
"Oh Luft, Du edles Element, führ hin mein Liedlein behend"
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Felix Krieger
Altflöte in G ( Oh Luft, Du edles Element, führ hin mein Liedlein behend )
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Type: Stimme
Felix Krieger
Kontrabass ( Oh Luft, Du edles Element, führ hin mein Liedlein behend )
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The work was composed during the first lockdown of the Corona pandemic in April 2020, when public life came to a standstill and music was also silenced worldwide - it is a reflection and mirroring of this experience and time, a dialogue for alto flute and double bass.
Krieger composed the duo as a musical greeting for a musician couple in São Paulo who were also living in isolation at the time, for the flutist Sarah Hornsby and the double bass player Pedro Gadelha, to whom the work is dedicated. The piece was inspired by a literary and a musical source: its title "Oh Luft, Du edles Element, führ hin mein Liedlein behend" is a quotation from the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn that speaks for itself;
musically-structurally, this duo is based on a melodic excerpt from the song Frühlingsgruss by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, which is elaborated in the piece, slowly unfolds and finally appears in the last bars of the piece as timid as it is hopeful.