String sextet - advanced
SKU: HL.49017071
Composed by Bertold
Hummel. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. String. Seit 1965
arbeitete Hummel an
diesem Sextett, bis er es
1999 als vollendet
betrachtete. Es ist ein
leicht spielbares,
klangschones und
ergreifendes Stuck. Bei
der Urauffuhrung hat der
im Jahre 2002 verstorbene
Komponist noch selbst
mitgespielt. Score and
parts. Composed
1978/1999. Op. 75d. 40
pages. Duration 6'.
Schott Music #ED 20289.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49017071).
ISBN
9790001149945.
9.25x12.0x0.128
inches.
Bertold
Hummel worked on his
Adagietto for many years.
Originally conceived as
an Elegy for Strings in
1965, it was transformed
into an Adagietto for
String Sextet in 1978 and
published for the first
time in 1993. Hummel
undertook a further
arrangement of the
composition in 1999 and
participated with musical
friends in its first
performance. In one of
the scores, the title is
supplemented by the term
“sacrale”, an
indication of the
religious background of
this composition. In a
time of increasing
secularisation, the
creative and no doubt
also the reproducing
artist have the task of
pointing out to their
contemporaries the
transcendental, the
inexplicable and the
unprovable. The language
of music - most effective
perhaps in reaching
across world frontiers -
has an especially
important role in this.
Representations of
suffering and horror
alone cannot be the
inherent constituent of a
work of art. A reference
to comfort and hope is
indispensable.
Furthermore, life,
nature, and, for the
believer, knowledge of
God give cause enough for
praise and thanks.”
This is how my father
once formulated his
artistic conception. A
favourite adopted term of
his, “musikalische
Klangrede” [musical
speech), appears to me to
be particularly well
implemented in the
Adagietto.
