A Failed Entertainment by Clara Iannotta - String Quartet - Sheet Music

Details

Instruments: Cello; Viola; Violin
Ensembles: String Quartet
Composers: Clara Iannotta
Publishers: Edition Peters
Series: Women Composers and Arrangers
Formats: Score and Parts; Set of Parts
Item Types: Physical
Usages: School and Community

Description

String Quartet string quartet

SKU: PE.EP14241

Composed by Clara Iannotta. String Quartets. Edition Peters. Score and Part(s). 110 pages. Edition Peters #98-EP14241. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP14241).

ISBN 9790014124731.

Written for and first performed by Quatuor Diotima in November 2013.

"Last October, I was on a four-day train trip from San Francisco to New York when I started reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.

Over the last year, I have been looking for a way — my personal way — to deal with form and time, and this book helped me, giving me a new, different perspective on them. I am not saying that my piece is related to Infinite Jest — although ‘A Failed Entertainment’ was Wallace’s working title for his novel — but that this was the impulse which led me here, a starting point for a search that will probably take me several years.

I am used to working with different kinds of sound, melting them together in order to find a unique shape. What challenged me in this piece was precisely the fact that I could not work as I always do, because I had four instruments with the same sound properties. A Failed Entertainment is my longest work as well as my first attempt at working beyond the sound itself.

I am grateful to Julia Gerlach and the Berliner Kunstlerprogramm des DAAD for supporting the project, and to the musicians of Quatuor Diotima, for their commitment."

- Clara Iannotta