Franke: For Wols
It's all over - Four Pieces for Piano
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- Composer: Bernd Franke (1959-)
- Instrumentation: Piano
- Work: For Wols (It's all over)
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- Size: 9.1 x 11.8 inches
Description
"For Wols" was written in 1991 at the suggestion of the Cologne pianist Michael Graubner and commissioned by the Düsseldorf Tonhalle.
The premiere took place in Düsseldorf in 1993, and in 1994 "For Wols" was produced by Hessian Radio. "For Wols" was produced by Hessischer Rundfunk in 1994.
The dedication and subtitle of these four pieces for piano refer to the restless and tragic life as well as various works of the great German abstract painter Wols, who was born Wolfgang Schulze in Berlin in 1913, grew up in Dresden and died prematurely, aged just 38, completely impoverished in Paris.
Manfred H. Wenninger, excerpt from a portrait programme on Hessischer Rundfunk in 1996:
"‘For Wols (It's all over)' is an endgame. But it doesn't lead to a decision like in chess or football game; ‘endgame' would be better understood here in Beckett's sense, as an ‘old endgame that has always been lost'. Development takes place here, if at all, only in the smallest, often stuttering dimensions, tending to freeze into a point without development.
In the end, the ultimate opposition: two opposing voices in widely splayed positions. in an apparent contradiction of seeming static and violent outburst, the two inspiring starting points to which the title alludes are found: the paintings of the painter Wolfgang Schulze, whose abstract works Franke describes as partly filigree-silent, partly violently expressive; as well as Franke's thoughts and feelings during the Gulf War."
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Franke: For Wols
