Category:
Chamber Music
The paraphrase presented here refers to the anecdote handed down by Forkel - albeit very uncertain - that the variation cycle was written as "music for falling asleep" for Count Hermann Carl von Keyserlingk (Russian envoy in Dresden 1733-1745).
The short Trio evokes a dream and sleep mood (with piano clusters and a mostly flat percussion part) ...in which fragmentary parts of the ornamented melody appear in the flute part: - outlined, shadowy, as if the Count, half asleep, could only hear parts of the 13th variation.
Duration: 4 Minuten
Instrumentation: Flute
Percussion (Vibraphone mit 2 bows, Tamtam, cymbal high snd low, metal chimes, bass drum)
Piano
Introduction: This composition was created for a book and CD project "Goldberg Global" as a commemoration of the 60th birthday of the musicologist Michael Heinemann (Dresden), curated by Violeta Dinescu. Various composers individually comment on one of the Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach with a musical interpretation.
The paraphrase of the 13th variation presented here refers to the anecdote handed down by Forkel - albeit very uncertain - that the variation cycle was written as "music for falling asleep" for Count Hermann Carl von Keyserlingk (Russian envoy in Dresden 1733-1745). Johann Sebastian Bach was hosted by Count Hermann Carl von Keyserlingk in Dresden in 1742. Johann Gottlieb Goldberg - a pupil of J.S. Bach - was the Count's harpsichordist and "chamber musician" and was to play this "Aria with various alterations" for Keyserlingk during his sleepless nights.
The paraphrase evokes a dream and sleep mood (with piano clusters and a mostly flat percussion part) ...in which fragmentary parts of the ornamented melody appear in the flute part: - outlined, shadowy, as if the Count, half asleep, could only hear parts of the 13th variation.
Dedication: …für Michael Heinemann zum 60. Geburtstag
World premiere:
01.05.2021
