HELMUT  OEHRING

G O Y A   I   Y o   l o   v i

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for orchestra

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free after the etching No. 44 of the series Les Desastres de la Guerra by Françisco de Goya

using some quotations from music of Ludwig van Beethoven

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Commissioned by SWR for the Donaueschingen Music Festival 2007

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world premiere: 19 October 2007 Donaueschingen, Donau Hall A
SWR Symphonic Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg  * conductor: Rupert Huber

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duration: 27 minutes
 

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C A S T

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3 flutes (2. also aldto flute, 3. also piccolo flute)
2 oboes
1 English horn in F
2 clarinets in B
1 bass clarinet in B
2 bassoons
1 contrabassoon

4 trumpets in C (requiring Harmon damper without plug-in tube)
3 horns in F            
3 trumbones (reqiring metal and wood damper)
1 tuba (requiring a damper)

percussion 1:
snare drum, vibraphon, singing saw, plastic bag, cardboard/paper, bell tree, marimbaphon, various cymbals, bass drum, crash cymbals (overlapped + taped down), gongs, TamTam, steel block, glass pendulum

percussion 2:
vibraphon, marimbaphon, plastic bag, ardboard/paper, bell tree, snare drum, gongs, various cymbals, glockenspiel, steel block, bass drum, chinese opera gong, TamTam, cowbells, singing saw

percussion 3:
snare drum, vibraphon, wind machine, plastic bag, cardboard/paper, bell tree, glass pendelum, various cymbals, alpine bells, crash cymblas (overlapped + taped down), xylophon, steel block, bass drum, metal pendulum, singing saw 

piano + celesta (1 player)

12 violins I      
10 violins II
9 viola
8 violoncelli
7 double bass