Composition Notes
After a year of saving my earnings, I was finally able to purchase my first electronic keyboard in the summer of 1994. With great enthusiasm, I began practicing piano and at last composed my first composition on the new keyboard. The resulting work became one of my mother’s favourite songs. The piece has literary associations with an unfinished novel I was working on at that time called “The Vulgard of Bonn” and I even attempted to write lyrics for the song. However, I soon gave up and instead moved on to other music projects.
30 years later, after looking through the original piano manuscript, I decided to make a new arrangement for large orchestra. The new arrangement follows the original melodic/harmonic structure, but includes much more complex ideas in the accompaniment.
Instrumentation
- Piccolo
- 2 Flutes
- 2 Oboes
- English Horn
- 2 Bb Clarinets
- 2 Bassoons
- 4 Horns in F
- 3 Bb Trumpets
- 2 Tenor Trombones
- Bass Trombone
- Tuba
- Timpani
- Bass Drum
- Cymbals
- Triangle
- Celesta
- Harp
- Violoncello (Soloist)
- 1st Violins
- 2nd Violins
- Violas
- Violoncellos
- Double Basses
