"Reliquien - Score and Parts" Sheet Music by Heinz Holliger

$52.99 USD 
Scored For: Soprano, Clarinet And Piano
Composers: Heinz Holliger
Pages: 89
This product does NOT support transposition or digital playback
SKU: 493713
Publisher: Schott Music
Grade Level: Difficult What's this?
Series: Edition Schott
Publisher ID: Q49721

I was in the middle of a recording project featuring Franz Schubert’s complete symphonies and other orchestral works, when I received a request from Anna Lucia Richter asking if I could compose a companion piece for Schubert’s The Shepherd on the Rock. I was inspired by the movingly simple yet profoundly mysterious musical text Schubert had published by Robert Schumann under the title Reliquien [Relics], and a composition in three sections was born which oscillates between recitative-like sections and expansive ariosos. The beginning of Schubert’s enigmatic funeral march Franz Schuberts Begräbnis- Feyer [Franz Schubert’s funeral ceremony] for nine winds, written when Schubert was only 16, wanders like a phantom as a tonal shadow through the score. Heinz Holliger