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 : Concerto for violoncello and orchestra Nº 2 / Douglas Knehans

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: vc-solo dulc pf hp sopr(offstage) 2fl(picc) 2ob 2cl 2fg(cfg) 4h 2tpt 2trb-t trb-b tb timp 3perc str

Twee sonnetten : voor mezzo-sopraan en orkest, op. 10 / Marius Flothuis

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and orchestra
Scoring: medium 0222 2100 timp perc str

Belsazer / muziek: Henriette Bosmans, tekst: Heinrich Heine

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and orchestra
Scoring: alt 3222 4220 timp perc cel hp str

Abel et Caïn : tableau symphonique, pour une voix basse et grand orchestre, op. 15 / musique: Géza Frid, paroles: Charles Baudelaire

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and orchestra
Scoring: low 3233 4331 timp perc 2hp str

 

composition

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

Publisher's number: 21320
Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and orchestra
Scoring: sop eh tpt 2perc hp str
Duration: 52'00"
Year of composition: 2018
Status: fully digitized (real-time delivery)

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

Sheet Music
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