Scampolo

SKU: HL.49042480

ISBN 9790001116022.

SKU: HL.49042490

SKU: HL.49021938

The German composer Joseph Ignaz Schnabel (1767-1831) was a descendant of a musical family. During his lifetime he occupied several musical posts including Violinist, Organist, Concertmaster, Conductor, Music Teacher and managing director of the Royal Institute for Church Music. Schnabel composed masses, hymns, vespers, military music and a clarinet concerto. His choir work Transeamus usque Bethlehem is still widely performed and Wil van der Beek has produced this excellent arrangement for concert band which does justice to the original.

De Duitse violist, organist en componist Joseph Ignaz Schnabel, die leefde van 1767 tot 1831, componeerde onder andere missen, hymnen, vespers, militaire muziek en een klarinetconcert. Zijn prachtige koorwerk Transeamus usque Bethlehemwordt nog altijd veel uitgevoerd. Wil van der Beek maakte van dit werk een uitstekend arrangement voor harmonieorkest, waarin het origineel goed tot zijn recht komt.

Der deutsche Komponist, Geiger, Organist, Dirigent und Musiklehrer Joseph Ignaz Schnabel komponierte Messen, Hymnen, Vespern, Militärmusik und ein Klarinettenkonzert. Sein Chorwerk Transeamus usque Bethlehem wird noch immer weltweit aufgeführt. Wil van der Beek schuf ein ausgezeichnetes Arrangement des Stückes für Blasorchester, das dem Original absolut gerecht wird.

Le compositeur allemand Joseph Ignaz Schnabel (1767-1831) a composé des messes, des vêpres, des hymnes, de la musique militaire et un Concerto pour Clarinette. Son oeuvre pour Choeur Transeamus usque Bethlehem est encore chantée de nos jours. Wil van der Beek en a réalisé un excellent arrangement pour Orchestre dâ??Harmonie, fidèle la version originale.

Il compositore tedesco Joseph Ignaz Schnabel (1767-1831) ha composto messe, vespri ed inni, musica militare nonché un Concerto per Clarinetto. La sua opera per coro Transeamus usque Bethlehem è cantata ancora oggi. Wil van der Beek ne ha realizzato un eccellente arrangiamento per orchestra di fiati, fedele alla versione originale.

SKU: KU.GM-1911

ISBN 9790206202384. 9 x 12 inches.

Monumentum, Music for String Sextet, was written in 2014 to a commission from the Moritzburg Festival, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center New York and the Kathe Kollwitz House in Moritzburg. It is dedicated to the cellist Jan Vogler. The world premiere took place on 19 August 2014 at the Moritzburg Festival, performed by Timothy Chooi & Mira Wang (violins), Roberto Diaz & Hartmut Rohde (violas), Jan Vogler & Harriet Krijgh (cellos). The American premiere took place on 7 May 2015 in the Lincoln Center with the Amphion String Quartet, the violist Yura Lee and the cellist Jan Vogler.

The String Sextet Momentum commemorates the outbreak of the First World War, the death of Peter Kollwitz – who died as a volunteer, aged just 18, in the early weeks of the war – and the manner in which his mother, the artist Kathe Kollwitz, mourned the loss of her son. The artist worked through her pain by creating her most famous sculpture, The Mourning Parents. It stands today at the German soldiers’ cemetery at Vladslo in western Flanders, where her son Peter also lies buried. During the 18 years that she worked on the Parents, Kathe Kollwitz attended several concerts at the Volksbuhne in Berlin, where from January to February 1927 she heard Arthur Schnabel’s cycle of all the Beethoven piano sonatas. Schnabel performed the Sonata op. 111 in c minor on 26 February 1927, and this work touched her in particular, as we can read in her diary: “The strange flickering notes turned into flames – a moment of rapture, taking one into a different sphere, and the heavens opened almost as in the Ninth (Symphony). Then one found one’s way back – but it was a return after having been assured that there is a heaven. These notes are serene – confident – and good. Thank you, Schnabel!” This encounter with Beethoven’s last sonata inspired the artist to take up work again on her sculpture after a long interruption and to consider different possibilities for arranging the two figures. For this reason, the first minutes ofMomentum are derived from this sonata by Beethoven – though without it being quoted in an audible manner – and they leave their mark on the form of the Sextet. The number 18 and the date of Peter Kollwitz’s death (23 October 1914) also have a direct impact on the work’s dramaturgy. This music is mostly calm in nature, but is time and again interrupted unexpectedly, being disturbed by unruly sounds and vehement eruptions until time itself seems to dissolve in an aleatoric passage. The work ends with an extended lament on “seed corn should not be ground”, a line from Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years. Kathe Kollwitz often quoted this phrase to argue for peace, and also took it as the title for a lithograph that she made in 1942. - David Philip Hefti

SKU: BT.PMC3995

Based on manuscript sources held in the Artur Schnabel Archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. With a composer biography and detailed notes on the music.