Kontrakadenz
by Helmut Lachenmann
Orchestra - Sheet Music

Orchestra (picc.3.4.3.B-clar.2.dble bsn - 6.3.3.1. - perc(6) - hp.guit - pno.org - 4Ad hoc player - 4rec mouthpiece player - str: 14.12.10.8.6.)

SKU: BR.BG-876

Composed by Helmut Lachenmann. Softbound. Edition Gerig. World premiere: Stuttgart (Musik der Zeit), April 23, 1971DVD containing interview with Lachenmann, sectional rehearsals and concert. Music post-1945. Study Score. Composed 1970/71. 96 pages. Duration 17'. Breitkopf and Haertel #BG 876. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.BG-876).

ISBN 9790004140178. 9 x 12 inches.

Kontrakadenz - difference of acoustic situations, the blueprint of a musical model of communication based on the experience I had in pieces composed just before this one, especially in Air and Pression: That what resounds does not resound for the sake of its tonality and its structural modification, but signals the actual use of energies in the musicians' actions and renders the mechanical conditions and instances of resistance associated with these actions tangible, audible, anticipatable. Form and detail resulted from the effort of realistically laying bare this aspect and placing it in the dialectical setting imposed by the use of a symphonic apparatus.The title may save the piece from being perceived as an extreme case of antitonality instead of, as intended, an example of an immanent logic, which must be assumed and the handling of which is a matter of aware awareness.(Helmut Lachenmann)CDs/LP/DVD:Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, cond. Michael GielenLP Wergo WER 60122 / CD Wergo WER 67382SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, cond. Michael GielenCD KAIROS 0012232KAIEnsemble Modern Orchestra, cond. Markus StenzEMSACD-001Orquestra Sinfonica do Porto, Casa da Musica, cond. Lothar Zagrosek DVD ,,Lachenmann-Perspektiven 7 (Breitkopf & Hartel, BHM 7817) Bibliography:Hiekel, Jorn Peter: Helmut Lachenmann und seine Zeit, Laaber: Laaber 2023, S. 181-194.Mainka, Jorg: Gibt es traditionslose Musik?, in: Orientierungen. Wege im Pluralismus der Gegenwartsmusik, hrsg. von Jorn Peter Hiekel (= Veroffentlichungen des Instituts fur Neue Musik und Musikerziehung Darmstadt, Band 47), Mainz u. a.: Schott 2007, pp. 161-177.Nonnenmann, Rainer: Musik mit Bildern. Die Entwicklung von Helmut Lachenmanns Klangkomponieren zwischen Konkretion und Transzendenz, in: Nachgedachte Musik. Studien zum Werk von Helmut Lachenmann, hrsg. von Jorn Peter Hiekel und Siegfried Mauser, Saarbrucken: Pfau 2005, pp. 17-43.Spahlinger, Mathias: eroffnungs-schlussfall. uber die ersten vier takte der kontrakadenz, in: Musik-Konzepte 61/62 (1988), pp. 19-29Toop, Richard: Concept and Context: A Historiographic Consideration of Lachenmanns Orchestral Works, in: Helmut Lachenmann Inward Beauty, hrsg. von Dan Albertson, Contemporary Music Review 23 (2004), Heft 3/4, pp. 125-144.

World premiere: Stuttgart (Musik der Zeit), April 23, 1971.