Consolation I
from Les Consolations
by Helmut Lachenmann
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From Les Consolations. Composed by Helmut Lachenmann. Softcover. Partitur-Bibliothek (Score Library). Music post-1945; New music (post-2000). Study Score. Composed 1967/2000. Duration 10'. Breitkopf and Haertel #PB 5412. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.PB-5412).

ISBN 9790004212165. 11.5 x 16.5 inches.

Yesterday You stoodOn the wall.Now You standAgain on the wall.It is YouTodayWho stands on the wall.Man, it is You.Recognize Yourself:It is You.(Ernst Toller, from: Masse Mensch)In 1967 and 1968 I composed Consolation I after a text from Masse Mensch by Ernst Toller and Consolation II after the Wessobrunner Gebet (Wessobrunn Prayer). When interpreted as forms of consolation in the face of human helplessness and existential fear, both texts are contemplative in completely different ways: Its you standing at the wall today, look and know thyself - When nowhere was there something, no ends nor wends, there was still the one God almighty. Today I feel it was the disconsolateness of the two texts which made me come up with the title Consolation at the time. My original ideas on developing the series have changed since then. Dis-consolation, if such a thing actually exists, would be the basic, secret notion.(Helmut Lachenmann 1968)CDs/LP:Schola Cantorum Stuttgart, Arno Arndt, Siegfried Fink, Hermann Gschwendtner, Michael W. Ranta, cond. Clytus GottwaldCD Cadenza 800 893LP WER 60122 / CD Wergo WER 67382Klangforum Wien, cond. Hans Zender, Schola Heidelberg, ensemble aisthesis, cond. Walter NussbaumCD KAIROS 0012202KAISchola Cantorum Stuttgart, cond. Clytus GottwaldDoppel-CD 50 Jahre Kompositionspreis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart 50KPS07Ensemble CIRCUS MUSICUS, cond. Dieter Kurz CD ,,Resonanz 2008" (Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart) Bibliography:Luck, Hartmut: Philosophie und Literatur im Werk von Helmut Lachenmann, in: Der Atem des Wanderers. Der Komponist Helmut Lachenmann, hrsg. von Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich, Mainz: Schott 2006, pp. 41-55.Montaguti, Marco: Oltre, in: Per un Mahler cisalpino. Un secolo di ,,Sprechgesang", hrsg. von Piero Mioli, Bologna: Patron 2016, pp. 153-162.

World premiere: Bremen (pro musica nova), May 3, 1968.