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Penelope : for oboe / Pauline Oostenrijk
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Oboe
Scoring:
ob
Sonatine : voor hobo-solo, A'dam, september 1959 / Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Oboe
Scoring:
ob
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Oboe
Scoring:
2ob eh
Sonate : voor hobo-solo, 1947, (revisie 1986) / Wim Franken
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Oboe
Scoring:
ob
composition
Penelope : for oboe / Pauline Oostenrijk
Other authors:
Oostenrijk, Pauline
(Composer)
Description:
According to Greek mythology, Penelope waited 20 years for the final return of her husband Odysseus. To delay her many suitors, she pretended to be weaving a burial shroud for Odysseus's elderly father Laertes and claimed that she would choose a suitor when she would be finished. However, every night, she would undo part of the shroud.
The composition depicts Penelope's lonely, sometimes desperate, talking-to-herself and her longing for Odysseus, as well as her working on the weaving loom (from bar 33) and pulling out the result afterwards.
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