• Arnulf Herrmann
  • Manische Episode (2019)
    (ein Beethovenkommentar for orchestra)

  • Henry Litolff’s Verlag GmbH & Co. KG (World)
  • 3(III:pic).2.3(I:bcl,Ebcl.II:bcl,Ebcl.III:bcl).3(III:cbn)/4.2.3.1/2timp.2perc/hp/str(10.8.6.6.4)
  • 16 min

Programme Note

Manische Episode (für Orchester)

In the manic episode, a single constellation of motifs is continually broken down and rewritten. Metaphorically speaking, the music runs into a wall again and again and with increasing intensity.

Inscribed in this constellation is a reminder of the head motif of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. However, although it is present almost throughout, it does not appear anywhere as a simple motif quotation, but is always overlaid by something else, embedded, like a message that no longer has a single originator.

The trace is processed in a literal sense without interruption and thus gradually frees itself from its origin in an ongoing dynamic process.

In the end, excess and standstill come together – and finally collapse into one another.

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