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
Quattro violini : for 4 violins, 1999 / Will Eisma
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
4vl
Ascolta : for tenor solo, mixed choir and soundtracks, 1988 / text by Bert Schierbeek, Ton Bruynèl
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir; Electronics and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring:
ten GK4 soundtracks
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s); Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bar pf 2vl vla vc / bar pf str(vl vla vc)
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr-m cl h 2perc pf
composition
Le gibet : for baritone, instruments and live-electronic / words by 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. The live electronics in Le Gibet were consciously set to the background. But there is one moment in which the electronic sounds predominate: shortly before the end is a burst of instrumental resonance. - WILL EISMA