Guero
by Helmut Lachenmann
Piano Solo - Sheet Music

Piano

SKU: BR.EB-9018

Composed by Helmut Lachenmann. Solo instruments; stapled. Edition Breitkopf. World premiere: Hamburg, December 1, 1970. Music post-1945; New music (post-2000). Score. Composed 1969/88. 8 pages. Duration 5'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 9018. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-9018).

ISBN 9790004179024. 9 x 12 inches.

In Guero, as in Pression (1969/70) for cello or Dal Niente (1970) for clarinet, Lachenmann was to re-invent the whole nature of the instrument, in response to a commission from Alfons Kontarsky. The performer scrapes along and over the white and black keys (or both in combination), eventually progressing towards the strings, thus producing six "manuals", each of which resembles the South American rasing percussion instrument. Unusual instrumental techniques, by the very nature of their conventional exclusion, give the archaic notion of "refined" playing its identity. The way in which such techniques draw attention to themselves is a strategy by which Lachenmann avoids a phantasmagorical sensation of music "from on high", and grounds it more firmly within the means of its production.Ian Pace (2000)(program notes for the Huddersfield Festival 2000)CDs/LP:Roland Keller CD col legno 429 356-2 Helmut Lachenmann CD Montaigne Auvidis MO 782075 Helmut Lachenmann LP ABT ERZ 1003 Marino Formenti (piano) CD Col legno WWE 20222Yukiko Sugawara (piano)Musik in Deutschland 1950-2000CD RCA 74321 73590 2Herbert Schuch (piano)CD Oehms Classics, OC 593Herbert Schuch (piano)CD OEHMS CLASSICS OC 012 (8 CDs)Bibliography:Ivry, Benjamin: Fanning the Flames, in: International Piano 71 (2018), Mai/Juni-Heft, S. 25-29Jahn, Hans-Peter: simultan eine Erinnerung, in: Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik 167 (2006), Heft 1, pp. 12-15.ders.: meinetwegen mickrig schabig nicht bosartig . 12 Annaherungen an die (komponierende) Person Helmut Lachenmann, in: auf (-) und zuhoren. 14 essayistische Reflexionen uber die Musik und die Person Helmut Lachenmanns, hrsg. von Hans-Peter Jahn, Hofheim: Wolke 2005, pp. 211-238.Nimczik, Ortwin: Wie Klaviere auch klingen konnen. Den Klang von Klavieren neu entdecken mit Helmut Lachenmanns Guero und Claus Kuhnls Klang und Stille, in: Musik und Bildung 39 (2007), Heft 4, pp. 64-68.Nonnenmann, Rainer: Das unerkannt Bekannte. Kritische Anmkerungen zum Verfremdungsgebrauch in Helmut Lachenmanns "Guero" (1970), in: Musiktheorie 2/2000, pp. 111-120.Ott, Immanuel: Bewegung komponieren, in: Musik & Asthetik, Heft 59, Juli 2011, pp. 46-54.Schlothfeldt, Matthias: Komponieren im Unterricht (= FolkwangStudien 9, Hildesheim u. a.: Olms 2009, dort pp. 275-286.

World premiere: Hamburg, December 1, 1970.