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- Per Nørgård
Præludium og myrefuga (1982)
- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
Komponisten ønsker ikke værket opført (2009)
- 1.0.1.0/0.0.0.0/perc/gtr/man/str(1.0.0.0.1)
- 14 min
Programme Note
PRELUDE, ANT FUGUE & A CRAB CANON
The work was commsioned by Nieuve Ensemble (New Ensemble)in Holland and was premiered in december 82 in Amsterdam. As the title suggests the work refers to the baroque genre prelude and fugue, but seen through the 20.th century consciousness: The prelude is based - bar for bar - on the famous Bach-prelude in C major from the Well Temperated Piano I, which is reflected as in a prism where the 5 inherent parts are magnified or transposed to other octaves, or its basic rhythm of 8:5:3 is widered to bigger stretches (or reduced to smaller), keeping its golden section - proportion.
The Crab Canon as well as the fugue is inspired by Escher, the Dutch artist creating the Illusionary Realism (with wrong but convincing perspectives etc.), in the way that a real fugue never is undertaken, but a rush of parts is always interlocking - and in a big hurry. After a slower cadenza-like section the work closes with a combinatioin of the Bach-prelude-ending and the Fugue theme.
Per Nørgård
The work was commsioned by Nieuve Ensemble (New Ensemble)in Holland and was premiered in december 82 in Amsterdam. As the title suggests the work refers to the baroque genre prelude and fugue, but seen through the 20.th century consciousness: The prelude is based - bar for bar - on the famous Bach-prelude in C major from the Well Temperated Piano I, which is reflected as in a prism where the 5 inherent parts are magnified or transposed to other octaves, or its basic rhythm of 8:5:3 is widered to bigger stretches (or reduced to smaller), keeping its golden section - proportion.
The Crab Canon as well as the fugue is inspired by Escher, the Dutch artist creating the Illusionary Realism (with wrong but convincing perspectives etc.), in the way that a real fugue never is undertaken, but a rush of parts is always interlocking - and in a big hurry. After a slower cadenza-like section the work closes with a combinatioin of the Bach-prelude-ending and the Fugue theme.
Per Nørgård
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