composer

Knehans, Douglas

Though first known through his collaboration with director Barrie Kosky in the Opera Australia production of his The Ascension of Robert Flau (1990), Douglas Knehans (b. 1957) is perhaps best ...

related works

Black City (Cello Concerto Nº 2) : for cello, concertino, off-stage soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra

Two Songs and a Tear : for 3 sopranos and orchestra / Guus Janssen

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and orchestra
Instruments: 3sopr pic fl ob cl cl-b fg h trp trb 3perc 2vl vla vc cb

Sonnet : voor mezzo-sopraan en orkest, op. 9, 1939-1940 / op tekst van Ernst Toller, [Marius Flothuis]

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and orchestra
Instruments: sopr-m 2232 3330 timp perc pf str

Als een zin... : 3 miniaturen en een reductie, voor alt en orkest, 1995 / op teksten van de componist, Piet-Jan van Rossum

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and orchestra
Instruments: alt 3333 4331 6perc cel hp pf harm str(13.12.10.8.5.)

composition

Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans

Other authors:
Knehans, Katarina (librettist)
Description:
Cloud Ossuary began as a setting of my daughter’s riveting and poignant poem Bones and All. When I first read this work, I was seized with an immediate desire to set it to music. So, almost as immediately I did indeed get to work on it.
The Ossein Cage, composed after the two movements that follow it, uses the same harmonic architecture as both subsequent movements, while Breathe Clouded is actually an inverted and compressed version of Bones and All. Thus, the whole of Cloud Ossuary sits as three different guises of the same material and structural approach, though with clear and dramatically different surfaces.
Douglas Knehans