Once upon a time... Five pieces in fairy-tale style for clarinet, viola and piano Clarinet - Digital Sheet Music

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Five pieces in fairy-tale style for clarinet, viola and piano. Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: score and parts. Narrative - fairy tale - fairy tales - robert schumann - depth psychology. 5 Stücke im Märchenton für Klarinette, Viola und Klavier. Score and parts. Duration 29 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q42473. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q42473).

As far back as I can remember, I have always been fascinated with fairy tales: with their archetypal characters and set phrases like ‘Once upon a time …’ and ‘… they all lived happily ever after’. Fairy tales were however also a source of unrest for me as a seismograph of mankind’s underlying primal fears and desires. So as a performer and composer I have always felt that Robert Schumann’s Märchenerzählungen [Fairy Tales] (scored for the same instrumentation as my own composition) was a disjointed, complex contemporary work – despite the innocence and naivety of its initial appearance. I therefore do not intend my own Es war einmal … [Once upon a time …] to be a mere sentimental, nostalgic flight into the distant past, but as a naive and fantastical alternative concept to our genuine world with all its upheavals. Jörg Widmann.