Octet for wind instruments (op. 47, 1972)

Movement titles

I. Sostenuto, II. Capriccio, III. Invocation und Choral, IV. Allegro marciale

Instrumentation

Flute, clarinet in B flat, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones

Duration: 22 minutes

Premiere
1972, Munich

Max Hecker | Eduard Brunner | Karl Kolbinger | Wolfgang Piesk | Willi Bauer | Karl Hertel | Michael Stern | Ernst Giehl

Autograph

Title: Octet for wind instruments (1972) - Length: 46 pages - Date: I. 2 Sept. 72 / II. 16 Sept. 72 / III. 3 Nov. 72 / IV. 21 Nov. 72 - Location: unknown

Publisher

N. Simrock Hamburg-London (Boosey & Hawkes) Partitur: ISMN M-2211-2077-9 | Stimmen: ISMN M-2211-2076-2

op. 47, 4th movement
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The Octet for Winds (1972) op. 47 was commissioned by the Munich Wind Octet - intended as a programme counterpart to Stravinsky's Octet, with which it shares its instrumentation.

The 1st movement(Sostenuto) is characterised by throbbing sound surfaces to which varied thematic formulations are superimposed as fully chromatic additions.

In the 2nd movement.(Capriccio), the various instrumental groups are played off against each other in a virtuoso manner - fused together - to form short carpets of sound and chordal columns. Reflections and crab-like passages are predominant.

Invocation and chorale: A quasi-rhetorical section leads into 4 chorale lines, each of which is interrupted by a recitative. The opening mood is taken up again and ends in a "standing" sound that sinks into nothingness.

Allegro marciale: The predominant elementary march rhythm - not entirely free of satirising elements - is caught up in the tension between the movement types of the three preceding movements, a trumpet cadenza leads to a brief recapitulation.

Bertold Hummel

Octet for wind instruments (op. 47, 1972)

Movement titles

I. Sostenuto, II. Capriccio, III. Invocation und Choral, IV. Allegro marciale

Instrumentation

Flute, clarinet in B flat, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones

Duration: 22 minutes

Premiere
1972, Munich

Max Hecker | Eduard Brunner | Karl Kolbinger | Wolfgang Piesk | Willi Bauer | Karl Hertel | Michael Stern | Ernst Giehl

Autograph

Title: Octet for wind instruments (1972) - Length: 46 pages - Date: I. 2 Sept. 72 / II. 16 Sept. 72 / III. 3 Nov. 72 / IV. 21 Nov. 72 - Location: unknown

Publisher

N. Simrock Hamburg-London (Boosey & Hawkes) Partitur: ISMN M-2211-2077-9 | Stimmen: ISMN M-2211-2076-2

op. 47, 4th movement
Playing this video will transmit data to YouTube.

The Octet for Winds (1972) op. 47 was commissioned by the Munich Wind Octet - intended as a programme counterpart to Stravinsky's Octet, with which it shares its instrumentation.

The 1st movement(Sostenuto) is characterised by throbbing sound surfaces to which varied thematic formulations are superimposed as fully chromatic additions.

In the 2nd movement.(Capriccio), the various instrumental groups are played off against each other in a virtuoso manner - fused together - to form short carpets of sound and chordal columns. Reflections and crab-like passages are predominant.

Invocation and chorale: A quasi-rhetorical section leads into 4 chorale lines, each of which is interrupted by a recitative. The opening mood is taken up again and ends in a "standing" sound that sinks into nothingness.

Allegro marciale: The predominant elementary march rhythm - not entirely free of satirising elements - is caught up in the tension between the movement types of the three preceding movements, a trumpet cadenza leads to a brief recapitulation.

Bertold Hummel

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