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Title	Stimmen der Nacht (1. Konzertstück)
Article no.	4020101
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Concert music
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
Country of publication	Germany (de)
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Composer	Erdmann, Veit
Difficulty level	4
Evaluation level of countries	D4 (German upper level)
Duration	10:30
Additional info/contents	In 1999, a commissioned composition by the BDB for the association's 50th anniversary provided the impetus to write a series of concert pieces based on poems by the romantic Joseph von Eichendorff. The present “Concert Piece No. 1” from this cycle is a musical response to the following poem: “Voices of the Night”: Far deep, pale, silent fields - oh how happy that makes me, over all, all valleys, forests the magnificent loneliness! Only the bells ring from the city over the treetops, a deer raises its head in fright and immediately falls asleep again. But the forest stirs the treetops in my sleep from the rock wall, for the Lord goes over the peaks and blesses the quiet land. The text has a particular relevance for me, even 200 years after it was written: it is thoughts about the night, the forest, our interaction with nature, and silence. And how do we feel about it today when we turn night into day, when it's not just the forest that needs to be protected, when "silence" is gradually becoming a foreign word? This music is not a retelling, not program music, but rather a reflection on Eichendorff's thoughts. The music takes up the defining motif of many folk songs, the fourth - the romantic horn third can also be heard again and again as a reminder of a post horn signal. But the music has breaks, there are shifts, noisy movements in the tutti are followed by solo interventions. The work does not end in romantic exuberance, but rather leaves a quiet question mark. Veit Erdmann-Abele
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