Category:
Chamber Music
Duration: 9:00
Publisher of notes/sheet music: Edition Helbling (Innsbruck)
, 1990
Instrumentation: Alto sax., 2 trp.(B), 4 ten. tro., 2 bass tro., tuba,
piano or percussion
Solo instruments: Saxophon
Introduction: The saxophone embodies the 'soul of the German artist and comedian Karl Valentin and is hassled right at the beginning by the barbaric brass players with the famous Bavarian Defiliermarsch: after the military chaos and a 'mesto' as mourning the 'soul' awakes and becomes vital and rhythmic. The development leads to a distrassing culmination where the brass players musically corner and squeeze the saxophonist...'Karl Valentin Epitaph' - a gravestone quote for the unforgettable Karl Valentin.
Additional remarks: The pianist (or percussionist) plays 'special effents' such as whistles, bird voices, drums
World premiere:
12.07.1988, Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen München
Performers at world premiere: Rainer Fabich (sax.),
Munich College of Music ensemble, direction: Michael Stern
Records:
Produktion des BR 1989,
1989
Performers on recording: Rainer Fabich (sax.),
Munich College of Music ensemble, direction: Michael Stern
