Burlesque for piano and chamber orchestra (op. 13g, 1956)
Instrumentation
Piano and chamber orchestra (1.1.2.1-1.1.0.0-percussion, harp, strings)
Duration: 4 minutes
First Performance
4. Januar 1957 (Erstaufnahme, Aufnahme erhalten Band-Nr. KO-140),
Freiburg
Kleines Unterhaltungsorchester des SWF / Willi Stech
Autograph
Title: "Burleske" for solo piano + small orchestra - Length: 33 pages - Date: 5 Dec. 56 - Location: Bavarian State Library, Munich
Publisher
Manuscript
Behr, Wolfgang Martin: Das kleine Unterhaltungsorchester des Südwestfunks unter der Leitung von Willi Stech. Untersuchungen zur Aufgabe und Bedeutung eines Rundfunkorchesters (1992). Printed: Baden-Baden 1994 (= Südwestfunk, Schriftenreihe Rundfunkgeschichte, Vol. 3).
The Burleske for piano and chamber orchestra op. 13g was commissioned by the small entertainment orchestra Südwestfunk Baden-Baden in 1956. The following year, it was produced for SWF in Freiburg with this orchestra under the direction of Willi Stech, who also took on the solo part. The concise and witty concert piece is beautifully orchestrated and characterised by brisk changes of time signature, which always come to rest in a little waltz melody.