related works
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
cl vla cimb perc cb
woord (Piano Concert Nº 6) : for piano and octet / Piet-Jan van Rossum
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Piano and large ensemble
Scoring:
2fl 2cl-b pf 2vn vla vc
Concerto 1800 : pour le piano-forte et orchestre de chambre / Wolf-Leonard Simonis
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Piano and large ensemble
Scoring:
pf-solo 2ob 2cl fg str
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Piano and large ensemble
Scoring:
fl(pic) ob cl cl-b fg h trp trb tb 2perc el.g acc 2vl vla vc cb pf-solo
composition
Ghosting Pantaleon : Concerto for piano and large ensemble / Elmer Schönberger
Author(s):
Schönberger, Elmer
(Composer)
Description:
Around the year 1700, Pantal(e)on Hebenstreit (1667-1750), a versatile German musician, caused a sensation when he built a large dulcimer. According to some sources, it had no fewer than 276 strings, made of metal as well as gut. The instrument played a significant role in preparing the way for the development of the modern piano. Louis XVI, impressed by Hebenstreit’s contraption, suggested the instrument should be named after its inventor and therefore be called a Pantaleon or Pantalon. Johann Kuhnau, Bach's predecessor at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig and equally impressed, enjoyed the instrument’s ‘momentum dulcedinis et gratiae musicae’. One could say that the solo piano in Ghosting Pantaleon is shadowed by the cimbalom and its allies (harp, vibraphone, celesta).