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In-Schrift, for orchestra (1995)
Bamberger Symphoniker
Hans Zender
All spatiality should be circumscribed in the music. I attempted to outwit the resonance with a consistent harmonic system; the voices move for the most part within a firmly contoured framework of chords, so that even rapid music is possible without blurring.
The basic idea is succinct: an Inschrift [“inscription” or “epigraph”]. This occurs in writing [in Schrift], both musical and writing notational characters, written into the line like adages. The orchestration is darkened, thereby attaining focus. --Wolfgang Rihm
Art by Pierre Bonnard
In-Schrift, for orchestra (1995)
Bamberger Symphoniker
Hans Zender
All spatiality should be circumscribed in the music. I attempted to outwit the resonance with a consistent harmonic system; the voices move for the most part within a firmly contoured framework of chords, so that even rapid music is possible without blurring.
The basic idea is succinct: an Inschrift [“inscription” or “epigraph”]. This occurs in writing [in Schrift], both musical and writing notational characters, written into the line like adages. The orchestration is darkened, thereby attaining focus. --Wolfgang Rihm
Art by Pierre Bonnard
