HELMUT OEHRING
2025*2026 LUXEMBURG * MONTRÉAL * MARSEILLE * BASEL * WIEN * BERLIN * AMSTERDAM * ROTTERDAM * DRESDEN * COTTBUS 2024*2025 PARIS * TAIPEH * CHICAGO * LOS ANGELES * FRANKFURT A.M. * WEIMAR * STUTTGART * KARLSRUHE * BASEL * METZ * STRASBOURG * NANTES * SZCZEZIN * ZAGREB *
for orchestra
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
Commissioned by SWR for the Donaueschingen Music Festival 2007
world premiere: 19 October 2007 Donaueschingen, Donau Hall A
SWR Symphonic Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg * conductor: Rupert Huber
duration: 27 minutes
C A S T
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