related works
Deux hommages en forme d'étude pour piano : opus 40, déc. '57 et janv. '58 / Léon Orthel
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Tempesta d'orchestra : op. 10 / Géza Frid
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3223 4321 timp perc hp pf(cel) str
Ouverture : (de 4 temperamenten), voor orkest, opus 5, 1982, (revisie 1983) / Marc van Delft
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4331 timp 5perc 2hp pf cel str
Marsyas : Concertsuite (Balthazar Verhagen) / Alphons Diepenbrock; samengesteld door Eduard Reeser
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
fl(picc) 2ob(eh) 2cl cl-b 2fg 3h timp perc hp str
composition
Scherzo no. 2 : per orchestra, opus 38, 1956-'57 / Léon Orthel
Other authors:
Orthel, Léon
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): (Première: 12-3-1957 - The Brabant Orchestra) - When one looks up 'scherzo' in Boumans' Foreign words in music (in the version by prof. Dr K. Ph. Bernet Kempers), the book gives the following explanation: rhythmical, piquant piece of music that is useful for a large diversity of moods. By nature lively and farcical, it can also be dark and ominous - with a slight inclination to charge - often also fantastic. For the average concert audience it should not be difficult to determine that scherzo is under no circumstances a happy phenomenon. It is, on the contrary a darkly coloured piece, to a certain degree. That it is a mixed form, written as a passage between the composed song form and larger rondo form, will be of interest to only a few. Perhaps it is more appropriate to say, that during my work on this scherzo the spirit of Jeroen Bosch came into view (that was, as a matter of fact, more so when writing my first symphony). I want to by no means give the impression of trying
to make a Bosch painting sound in music. However, it is still a name, in this lively scherzo. - LÉON ORTHEL