composer
Géza Frid was born on January 25, 1904, in Máramarossziget, a small town in former Hungary (now Rumania). At the age of four, his mother gave him piano lessons, and ...
related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 2
Genre:
Unknown
Choreograffiti : a choreographic phantasy for string orchestra, opus 87, 1988 / J.M. Suykerbuyk
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str(4.3.5.4.2.)
Passacaglia : voor strijkorkest / Willem van Otterloo
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str
Kiss of Fire (Part 1) : Version for string orchestra / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str
composition
Symfonietta : voor strijkers, op. 66 / Géza Frid
Contains:
Andante capriccioso
Allegro giusto
Description:
Program note (English): Bravely aiming at an 'Umwertung aller Werte' - a revaluation of all values - the present-day musical idioms are still in their experimental stages. For the composer whose development is founded on a traditional basis, it is impossible, however, to stand aside: the current contrasts between tonal and a-tonal, between pure sound effects and 'old-fashioned' methods of working with motifs, entail problems of every kind. This Symfonietta, purposely scored for the austere strength of a string orchestra, also bears witness to these conflicts; not only in the manifold contrasts between the two movements - the first, thin of sound and unstable of design, the notoric second, solidly built - but also in the numerous melodic, harmonic, contrapuntal and instrumental clashes. The fact that the constructive element and tonality finally bear the upper hand is not meant as a pointer to the future. - GÉZA FRID