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- Niels Rosing-Schow
Windgeboren (1998)
- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
Programme Note
WINDGEBOREN (1998) for trumpet quartet.
I Intonation
II Passage
III Hymne ... sed signifer sanctus Michael repraesentet eas in lucem sanctam
The work is dedicated to ’Die Michaelstrompeter’ and Markus Stockhausen.
’Windgeboren’ belongs together with the orchestral work ’Windshapes’, the sinfonietta work ’...sous les râles du vent d’est’ and the violin concerto ’Trees’(work in progress) to a group of works in which musical conceptions are nourished by the wind as a gathering metaphor of the perceptible but invisible ’natural forces’ behind the music.
In addition to this image a number of other impressions have arisen during the process of composition which have to some extent left their mark on the three strongly contrasting movements, for instance:
- wind and spirit are said to be expressed by the same word in Hebrew.
- The archangel Michael is portrayed as the weigher of souls in many wonderful Danish frescos.
- Saint Michael in the role of standard-bearer and soul leader performs in the offertorium of the Requiem Mass. He leads the souls toward clarity, the holy light, the tripartition: beginning - middle - conclusion; birth - life - death; intonation - passage - hymn.
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I Intonation
II Passage
III Hymne ... sed signifer sanctus Michael repraesentet eas in lucem sanctam
The work is dedicated to ’Die Michaelstrompeter’ and Markus Stockhausen.
’Windgeboren’ belongs together with the orchestral work ’Windshapes’, the sinfonietta work ’...sous les râles du vent d’est’ and the violin concerto ’Trees’(work in progress) to a group of works in which musical conceptions are nourished by the wind as a gathering metaphor of the perceptible but invisible ’natural forces’ behind the music.
In addition to this image a number of other impressions have arisen during the process of composition which have to some extent left their mark on the three strongly contrasting movements, for instance:
- wind and spirit are said to be expressed by the same word in Hebrew.
- The archangel Michael is portrayed as the weigher of souls in many wonderful Danish frescos.
- Saint Michael in the role of standard-bearer and soul leader performs in the offertorium of the Requiem Mass. He leads the souls toward clarity, the holy light, the tripartition: beginning - middle - conclusion; birth - life - death; intonation - passage - hymn.
NR-S