composer
Will Eisma was born on May 13, 1929 at Sungailiat (Indonesia).
In 1946 Eisma came to The Netherlands. From 1948 to 1953 he studied violin with Jewsey Wulf and Oscar Back ...
related works
Concertino : per orchestra da camera / Will Eisma
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
2222 2200 timp perc pf str
Five Songs to Poems of Sylvia Plath : Version for ensemble / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Instruments:
sopr fl/pic cl/cl-b sax-a gt/gt-el pf/cemb vn vlc
Psalmus XI : opus 48, per contralto e viola, 1984 / Jo van den Booren
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Instruments:
alt vla
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Instruments:
sopr ob perc pf vla db
composition
Le cheval mort : mezzo-soprano, bass clarinet, piano, percussion: marimba + tamtam, 2 synthesizers, 4 channel tape / text: Aloysius Bertrand, Will Eisma
Other authors:
Bertrand, Aloysius
(librettist)
Description:
Program note (English): The compositions Le Gibet and Le Cheval Mort were set to surrealistic poems by Aloysius Bertrand from his collection: Gaspard de la nuit, septième livre, Pièces détachées. The wonderful ambience derived from the poems inspired me to set some of these to music. The text of the poems expresses the dramatic environment of a battlefield and a graveyard. This lends itself easily to natural nocturnal sounds, bloodcurdling whistling and cracking noises. This is, however, something I wanted to avoid. I have tried to create an unreal atmosphere in my music. In Le Cheval Mort the electronics are prominent, especially in the second half of the work. It was written for the music festival in Witten, Germany and received its première there in 1976. - WILL EISMA