Baukastn Für Orchestter – Wikipedia Wikipedia

The Mod kit for orchestra Is an orchestral work by Georg Katzer from 1972. The cast includes 3 flutes, 2 oboen, 2 clarinets in B, 2 bassoon, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B, 3 trombones, drums, vibraphone, bells, piano, harp and Streicher (12 1. violins, 12 2. violins, 10 viola, 8 celli, 6 double basses).

In the concert hall, the work was listed for the first time on November 29, 1973 in the Komische Oper Berlin under the direction of Gert Bahner. A West Berlin performance took place in January 1974. In 1982 the work was included in the curriculum of general education schools in the GDR.

Georg Katzer understands the original meaning of composing as Put together . He conducts this compositional technology in a kit for orchestra, mostly with its own acoustic means invented for this work. The exact course of the composition can be found from the detailed tables in Georg Katzers and Frank Schneiders. The basic compositional idea is first a merging and at the end a disassembly of the individual elements ( Building blocks ) of the musical Building refer to. The shape is a symmetrically structured three -part with two highlights and declining reprise. The musically characterized each Building blocks ,, which in turn also compose thematically together with 10 bars each, are taught by an instrument family.

As important, special characteristics of composition, metric alecatorics, scale alator, short impulses, cluster -like sound areas, fast repetitions, glissandi and numerous noise effects are to be mentioned. These are also part of the standard repertoire of new music at the beginning of the 1970s. Acoustic, clearly recognizable from time 154, is the one in the second half of the work, within the second highlight, from sounds that were kept out and declared by Frank Schneider Singing Solid Melodie the double bass. This can be heard three times easily modified. The first six tones of the Cantus-firm melodie are slowed down by bell play, vibraphone, bells, piano and harp. About like the whole Kit Nevertheless, this melody also comes into being Characters on. Frank Schneider interprets this process as Liquefaction and sturdy of the modular. Finally, only the initial ones remain building blocks left over.

Georg Katzer feels his work as A very logical and consistent level of development of music . In his view, it could be one logical Avert a framed musical idealism as he was in advance as partisan was challenged. In addition to the musical Playing dice tries Georg Katzer to comparable modern problems in material production and On the economy of time in the interpretative rehearsal process to point out: On the occasion of the performance of one of my orchestral music, I wondered what a piece had to look like that could be performed in three times two hours of rehearsal time at the current status of our orchestras, regarding contemporary music. The serious compositional task would be Georg Katzer On the rationalizations, for example of the construction industry and its use of standardized parts due to. The exaggerated socialist realism seems to play a major role. The composition process was on the site laid.

• Then Noeske: IV.2.2.3.3 Katzer: kit for orchestra (Pp. 302-305) from: Musical deconstruction. New instrumental music in the GDR . 3. Edition. Cologne: Böhlau. 2008.