For the Beethoven Year, composers were asked to set selected passages from Beethoven's conversation books to music. York Hller's text 'focused at the end on the sentence "Das Rad luft" [The wheel is running] - containing the note letters D-A-ES[E flat]-AS[A flat] and a revolving motif around the note D, which is later expanded to a 20-note sound form', says the composer. Hller's quartet is in one movement, articulates itself in freely tonal harmony and frequent changes of time, and uses alienated Beethoven quotations as well as concisely formulated, different characters, which are strung together like little bon mots, leading all together to a virtuoso fugato.

Publisher

Bote & Bock

Composer

York Hoeller

Instrument

Cello|Viola

Format

String Quartet

Binding

Score|Parts

Pages

52

ISBN

9783793142706

Stock code

M202535738

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