related works
Solemn and Strange Music : for ensemble / Elmer Schönberger
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
fl/picc/fl-a cl h perv hp pf 2vn vla vc db
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and instruments; Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 2vl vla vc / GK4 str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring:
GK4 2cornetto 3sackbut-ten sackbut-b org vln-b
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring:
recit GK4 ob cl fg pf
composition
Dovemansoren : for tenor solo, three female voices and ensemble, 2002 / Elmer Schönberger
Other authors:
Beethoven, Ludwig van
(Text writer/Librettist)
Schönberger, Elmer
(Text writer/Librettist)
Schönberger, Elmer
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): Dovemansoren [Deaf Ears] is the title of a play I wrote for theatre company De Appel [The Apple] in 2002. Family and friends meet around Otto Goud's coffin, committing autopsy on the memory of this former conductor, who once, at the top of his career, turned his back on music, and was never heard from again. I wrote two intermezzi where Otto Goud's ghost sings fragments from letters by Ludwig van Beethoven, a choir of three female voices in turn providing comments on these letters. - ELMER SCHÖNBERGER