Night walks

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Nocturnal Walks (also Plimbări Nocturne , Nocturnal Walks ) is the title of an orchestral composition by Franz Koglmann from 2007. The piece is subtitled “Twilight of thought based on motifs by Joseph Haydn , with the original voice by EM Cioran ”. It is set up for flute , oboe , cor anglais , clarinet , bassoon , double bassoon , two trumpets , flugelhorn , trombone , tuba , two violins , viola , cello , accordion , drums , and vibraphone , plus the voice of Cioran.

Koglmann "received a composition commission for the European Capital of Culture 2007, Sibiu / Hermannstadt ." There the piece was performed on May 18, 2007 with the ensemble exxj ... ensemble xx. century led by Peter Burwik first performed and with the composer as soloist to trumpet or horn wing; a “preview” took place on May 16, 2007 in Schönbrunn Palace .

In his composition, Koglmann used all of the themes from Haydn's 27th Symphony in G major (“Hermannstädter Symphonie”), some in the original form, but some also varied and in different harmonies and rhythms. The piece has hard montage cuts, which according to an interview with the composer "also makes sense to express the ambivalences of Cioran, who on the one hand was a total skeptic, on the other hand a very cheerful and by no means gloomy person". The leaked voice of Cioran comes from radio interviews; Cioran spent his youth in Sibiu and allegedly often wandered sleeplessly through the night there.

In 2008, Koglmann was awarded the Ernst Krenek Prize for his composition .

The composition has eight movements:

  1. Cioran: "Somebody wrote about me the other day ... It's like medicine."
  2. Motifs by Haydn
  3. Cioran: "We had a garden ... sleep is the illusion or the root of the illusion."
  4. Cioran: "Boredom is such a deep feeling ... because you are alive."
  5. Further Haydn motifs
  6. Cioran: "I have attacked Christianity again and again ... It has to be, as the French say,» élaboré «, ie thought through."
  7. Haydn. Cioran: "I couldn't sleep. ... and human fate."
  8. Cioran: "You have to be conceited ... or forever."

Koglmann's composition was published on CD by col legno together with the original Haydn symphony (in a recording by the Haydn Orchestra of Bozen and Trient under Gustav Kuhn ) .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Nüchtern, “Nocturnal Tryst in Hermannstadt” Liner Notes on Koglmann: Nocturnal Walks. col legno
  2. ↑ a b c Franz Koglmann - Presentation and award ceremony on Friday, December 12th. in the Radio-KulturHaus
  3. ↑ Alfred Koch recorded this in Paris in 1986 and 1988
  4. ↑ Information from Austria 2008: Culture / Media / Science: Ernst Krenek Prize of the City of Vienna to Franz Koglmann ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bka.gv.at