related works
Dovemansoren : for tenor solo, three female voices and ensemble, 2002 / Elmer Schönberger
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring:
ten VK3 3fl perc hp pf 2vl vla
Trans : for vocal and instrumental choirs, 1981-'82 / Daan Manneke
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring:
4sopr 4sopr-m 4alt 4ten 4bar 4bas 2ob cl fg h 2trp trb-b org
Roulette of moments : for choir (percussion and strings ad lib.), 1979 / Tera de Marez Oyens
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir; Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring:
GK4 (perc str ad lib.)
Cantate for a spring day : for soprano solo, mixed 16 part chorus and orchestra / Walter Hekster
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring:
sopr 4sopr 4alt 4ten 4 bas 2fl 2h 2trb 6fl 2vla cb prc
composition
Dovemansoren : for tenor solo, three female voices and ensemble, 2002 / Elmer Schönberger
Author(s):
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