composer
Rieteke Hölscher (1969) studied piano classical music and jazz / pop at the conservatory of the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (1987-1992) with Frans van Dalen and Tine Schneider, also ...
related works
Eigen-wijsje Nº 1 (Lifestream) : for piano / Rieteke Hölscher
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Instruments:
pf
Quartetto d’archi No VIII (finished by Leo Samama) : for string quartet / Robert de Roos
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String Quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Instruments:
2vl vla vc
The Witch of New Orleans (from "The Girls Collection") : for string quartet / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String Quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Instruments:
2vl vla vc
Contregambilles : for string quartet / Andrzej Kwiecinski
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String Quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Instruments:
2vl vla vc
composition
Circles Around a Broken Dream : String quartet Nº 1 / Rieteke Hölscher
Description:
Inspired by String Quartet No. 8 by Dmitri Shostakovich, this string quartet also tells the story of the process of dealing with a loss.
At first you can hear soft tremolos combined with pizzicato glissandos – according to the composer this main motive is the event of the loss itself – this motive is alternated with other musical motives and themes that represent the different stages of mourning, successively there is: denial, anger, confusion, sadness, and finally a kind of acceptance.
Just like Shostakovich, Hölscher writes a signature in this work, consisting of the letters C.HSCHE.