related works
String Quartet Nº 2 / Rieteke Hölscher
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vn vla vc
Divertimento : for two pianofortes, 1977 / Simon Pluister
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
2pf
Etude voor piano no. 2 : de tertsen, 1973 / Sas Bunge
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
2de sonate : voor piano, oct. 1950-jan. '51 / Wim Franken
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
composition
Social Distance? : for piano / Rieteke Hölscher
Author(s):
Hölscher, Rieteke
(Composer)
Description:
In the bizarre surreality of the quarantine measures in 2020 due to the infectious disease COVID19, our human life (temporarily?) seems like a bad dream. This inspired me to create a few solo pieces for piano. After all, the current measures make it impossible to play together without too many obstacles.
I have always been an opponent of – forced by circumstances – increasingly 'living' online. Now that is the case more than ever, it sometimes feels like a blessing. It is now our only chance for something similar to human contact. But I believe that human contact is indispensable for a happy and balanced mental life, which is why I (also in the titles) question these dreary form of life that is likely to become the new reality in our society in the near future (?).
Rieteke Hölscher, April 2020