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Scoring

2(II=picc,afl,swanee.whistle).2(I=harmonicaI,II=corA).2(I=harmonicaII,II=bcl,bhn).2(II=dbn)-2.2wagner.tuba.0.0

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Publisher

Sikorski

Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes / Sikorski for the world.
World Premiere
27/01/2014
Black Box, München
Ensemble Zeitsprung / Markus Elsner
Composer's Notes

‘For the long chords at the beginning of his ‘Alpine Symphony’, Richard Strauss prescribed the use of ‘Samuel's aerophone’ - a bizarre-looking device consisting of a bellows and a tube that is fed into the player's mouth.
I took up the idea of a very long-sounding wind chord for my composition. The 11-minute composition develops from a standing sound that is repeatedly fanned out and dynamically varied, presenting the many different timbres of this woodwind instrumentation.’ (Johannes X. Schachtner)

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