Frank Rich

SKU: HL.50601002

11.75x8.25x0.33 inches.

“I admire in Frank Cox a musician who has three gifts at a high, virtuoso level all at the same time. Firstly, he is composer, secondly, he plays the cello, specialising in extremely complicated works and finally, he is a brilliant thinker and author. Thus my 'Hommage à Frank Cox' is written as a trio. The vibraphone functions like a typewriter being typed on, the piano represents the place where the composer looks for his sounds and the electric guitar represents the 'performance' of a soloist. Throughout large sections, the three musicians play independently of each other although temporally coordinated. The work is therefore not written in score form. Each player plays a part in the given tempi independently of the other two players. The piano, which plays all the time, gives the vibraphone and guitar their entrances. The course of events is interrupted by three cadenzas, and a finale concludes the work. The players play together here in score form. Morphologically speaking, my point of departure was the (very simple) sinus wave whose mathematical function I continually enriched through additives, so that the formal sections of all three instruments can be shaped like a large network of variations. They play the same music, even when striving for stubborn independence.” (Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf).

SKU: HL.49033359

ISBN 9783795705275. German.

Um Schumanns letzte Lebensjahre, die er in der Nervenheilanstalt in Endenich bei Bonn verbrachte, ranken sich Geruchte, Legenden und Mutmassungen. Opfer dieser Spekulationen ist nicht zuletzt Clara Schumann. Ihr Verhalten wahrend dieser Zeit wird in popularen Lebensbeschreibungen haufig negativ bewertet. Die vom Komponisten Aribert Reimann im Archiv der Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, deponierten Krankenakten werden in diesem Buch erstmals ungekurzt veroffentlicht, durch weitere bisher unbekannte Quellendokumente erganzt und in einem medizinhistorischen Beitrag kommentiert. Diese Publikation liefert der biographischen, medizinischen, psychologischen und kulturgeschichtlichen Forschung erstmals ein serioses Quellenfundament. Eine der wichtigen Buchveroffentlichungen zum 150. Todestag von Robert Schumann am 29. Juli 2006.