related works
Dr. Haydn's universe : for speaker, wind octet and percussion, 1999 / Elmer Schönberger
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Speaking voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
recit 2ob 2cl 2h 2fg perc
Herschepping : voor kamerkoor en harp / Gerard Beljon; tekst van Gerrit Achterberg
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring:
sopr alt ten bas hp
Hidden Affordance : for mixed choir, melodic instruments and percussion / Heleen Van Haegenborgh
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring:
GK perc instr
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and organ; Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring:
GK4 (3trp ad lib.) org
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