Im Tempo eines Ländlers, etude for dulcimer (op. 88e, 1990)
Instrumentation
dulcimer
Duration: 4 minutes
Premiere
2 February 1994,
Munich, Gasteig, Small Concert Hall
Student of the class Karl-Heinz Schickhaus
Publisher
Preissler Music Publishers JP 6310/II ISMN 979-0-2014-9670-2
in "Gradus ad Parnassum II" Works written since 1988 by Paul Angerer, Herbert Baumann, Günter Bialas, Bertold Hummel, Gerd Kühr, Michael Rüggeberg, Ulrich Schultheiss and Rudi Spring. Edited by Karl-Heinz Schickhaus.
In 1990, the renowned dulcimer player, researcher and teacher Karl-Heinz Schickhaus (1938-2007) asked Bertold Hummel to compose a piece for a collection of etudes he was publishing. The resulting etude Im Tempo eines Ländlers was primarily intended for practising whole-tone scales.
Bertold Hummel's work is a genuine concert étude, based on the mother earth of the sedate Ländler with a mischievous allusion to Johann Strauss, modern with whole-tone scale sections suitable for the dulcimer and heavy - what more could a dulcimer player's heart want?
Karl-Heinz Schickhaus, September 1992