Stellar Caprices

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• Description +

  • These two movements were written on short notice in just two weeks to meet the deadline of the first edition of „Stellar Composition Competition“ in 2021. I reduced my demands to musical form thus ending up with the simple ABA structure at hand, only edited slightly in the second piece. There’s no underlying program, interpretation is completely up to the performer. However these can be taken for neo-romanticist Impromptus at face value, so take your musical freedom in the rhapsodic parts and don’t hesitate to aim for an appropriate grandeur in the tonal breakthroughs. Note that No. 1 was intentionally designed to be significantly less difficult than No. 2 and doesn’t feature the lower octave of the marimba. Supported by the Stellar Composer Competition 2021.
    
    Supported by the Stellar Composer Competition 2021.

• Instrumentation +

  • Marimba (5-octave)

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• About the composer +

  • Edzard Locher (born 1989 in Tettnang, Lake Constance) studied percussion, composition and pedagogy in Zurich. He was percussionist with Kiel Philharmonic and Hof Symphony and is principal percussionist with Hessen State Orchestra Wiesbaden since 2016 as well as an associate professor at Wiesbaden Music Academy. He composes works for percussion and has specialized in percussion arrangements of classical music.

• Credits +

  • Painting: "La Lune" by Alfons Mucha (1860-1939)
    Front Cover Design: Nicola Lee
    Photo: Christoph Risch
    Engraving: Edzard Locher
    Printed in Copenhagen, Denmark
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