Programmatoelichting 'Symfonie voor losse snaren'

name: nl Programmatoelichting 'Symfonie voor losse snaren'
headline: en Program notes 'Symfonie voor losse snaren'; nl Programmatoelichting 'Symfonie voor losse snaren'
creator: Louis Andriessen
articleBody: en Duration: 30' The open strings ensemble consists of twelve soloists. The ensemble has all the chromatic tones over a range of nearly four octaves at its disposal. For a melody of four consecutive tones, however, four players are required. The work was written for a group of string players at the Conservatory, a kind of teaching project for ensemble playing and counting. Regarding the composition technique, I employed symphonic procedures: recurring motives, a developing musical motion, and something like a recapitulation. I had not used techniques like these since the 1950’s, and they could be my answer to the neo-romantic movement: young composers writing once again for the symphonic orchestra. In this sense, the Symphony is ambiguous, using "symphonic" techniques while an open-string orchestra will never sound like a real symphony orchestra. This work has benefited from that discrepancy - in other words, for a symphony orchestra I would have written a different work. Louis Andriessen
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