Ostendorf, Jens-Peter
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This engagement with tradition is usually also critical. “My Wagner” by Jens-Peter Ostendorf, for example, is hardly just an admiring homage to the dedicatee mentioned in the title. Ostendorf once said that the piece was dedicated with hatred and admiration to Wagner, who, like no other, embodied and lived the contradictions of the 19th century in such a self-obsessed and powerful way. In his piece for large orchestra, written in 1983 on the occasion of the centenary of Richard Wagner's death, some passages are characterized by Wagnerian motifs, but the focus is on a completely independent new construction based on this "heritage". Ostendorf added: “The subtle timbre melody around the Parzival quote in the center of 'My Wagner' could not have been written without the conceptual instrumentation art of the brilliant dilettante of Villa Wahnfried, who was so superficially dismissed as the Pied Piper of Bayreuth. Neither does Webern's Bach instrumentation." The idea behind "My Wagner" leads to rousing, quotable-rich and ultimately very pictorial music, without Ostendorf consciously wanting to force these effects. (Helmut Peters)