composer
Otto Ketting was born in Amsterdam on September 3, 1935.
He studied trumpet at the Conservatory of The Hague, and composition with Karl Amadeus Hartmann in Munich.
He was active as a ...
related works
24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Concerto : for trombone and orchestra / Robert Groslot
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Trombone and orchestra
Scoring:
2222 / 2211 / perc (4 players) / hp / strings
Concerto for bass trombone and orchestra : Life Cycles / Jesse Passenier
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Trombone and orchestra
Scoring:
trb-b-solo picc 3fl 3ob eh 4cl cl-b 3fg cfg 8h 5tpt 2trb trb-b euph tb timp 4perc 2hp str
Trombone concerto : for trombone and orchestra / Roderik de Man, 2007
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Trombone and orchestra
Scoring:
pic 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2trp 2trb trb-b tb timp 2perc hp pf str trb-solo
composition
Robert asks for flowers : homage to Schumann, for 4 trombones and orchestra, 1999 / Otto Ketting
Description:
Program note (English): In March 1854, Clara Schumann writes in her diary: "Robert asks for flowers, but never for news about me". The composer, who is hardly aware of her existence, is in an insane asylum. One of the symptoms of his illness is the hearing of a continuous chaotic stream of music, without beginning or end. He passes away two years later. 'Robert Asks For Flowers' (R.A.F.F.) - I came across the phrase in an article by Eliot Slater: "Schumanns Illness". I wrote R.A.F.F. as an homage to Schumann, the great renewer of the concertante form (piano and cello concertos, Konzertstücke). In my own solo-pieces with orchestra (For Moonlight Nights, Cheops, Symphony for Saxophones and Orchestra) the function of the solo instrument or group often becomes a topic for discussion. In this piece the four trombones determine the form and the harmonic structure. A chain of dominant seventh chords used by Schumann to symbolise roses, a hidden gift for Clara, is now used as independent harmonic material. In
order to avoid complete consistency, the formal integrity is sometimes interrupted by strange intruders, among which the occasional Schumann quote would not be out of place. - OTTO KETTING