composer
Peter Schat is one of the most colourful and widely-known Dutch composers of the 20th century. He was born in Utrecht, the son of a Protestant baker, and knew from ...
related works
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Instruments:
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Malpaís con campanas : for large orchestra, 1997-2000, revision 2005 / Gustavo A. Trujillo
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
3333 4341 3perc cel(pf) pf str
Divertimento voor orkest : (1948) / Karel Mengelberg
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
2222 2200 timp perc str
Prana : for large orchestra / Petra Strahovnik
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
picc fl-bass 2fl 2ob h 3cl cl-bass 2fg cfg 4h 3tpt trb trb-ten tb timp 3perc hp pf str
composition
Mozaïeken : = (Mosaics), opus 5, for orchestra, (1959) / Peter Schat
Contains:
Lento
Allegretto grazioso
Description:
Program note (English): The Mosaics for orchestra were written in the spring of 1959. The title refers to the name of the musical set-up: a composition in which small, melodic, harmonic, rythmic and timbre-sounds function as independent data are freely associated against each other, analogously as in the way in which a mosaic is composed from colorful tiles. The usage of changing tonal patterns are created from a limited number of intervals. In this way there is a harmonic, rythmic and three melodic patterns. Additionally specific recurring dynamics play a role. The colors in the orchestra are extended with bells, vibraphone, xylophone, marimbaphone, several types of cymbals and drums, harp, celesta and piano. The form is a one movement piece (Lento) which flows into a second movement (Allegretto grazioso). The first part has been structured so that at the peak all data are heard simultaneously. The second part is an alternation between soli and tutti (7-movements), which can be compared to the
concerto grosso form with the idea that all solistic instruments take part alternatively. Mosaics represented the Netherlands during the ISCM festival in 1960. - PETER SCHAT