Lot n° 204
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Philippe BOESMANS (born 1936). Autograph musical manuscript - Lot 204
Philippe BOESMANS (born 1936). Autograph musical manuscript signed, Surfing for solo viola and 15 instruments, 1989; [1]-33 sheets 42 x 30 cm.
Orchestral score of this concertante piece for viola, premiered on March 19, 1990 in Brussels, as part of the Ars Musica festival, by the violist Christophe Desjardins, and the ensemble Musique Nouvelle under the direction of Georges-Élie Octors, and recorded by the same (Ricercar, 1990); it was published the same year by Jobert [WD35].
In addition to the solo viola, the instrumental ensemble includes: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, 2 percussionists, harp, piano (and celesta), 2 violins, cello, and double bass.
The work lasts 12 minutes and 30 seconds, and has 108 bars.
In a programme note, Ph. Boesmans explained: "The image of surfing came to me from the alternation, the succession of long and short lines, more or less long and more or less short, a little as if after having slid on the wave one rebounds by ricochet. In this piece, the ricochet is a playing technique that I used a lot, especially for the soloist. One could imagine that the long sounds are the waves and the short sounds are the bounces. From this rather simple image of surfing, I imagined a music where everything could happen in reverse, where the ricochets could come before the wave, where hundreds of people would be surfing sometimes all on the same wave, sometimes each on a different wave, creating a visual polyphony, which translates in the music into moments that can be almost homophonic or heterophonic to different degrees..."
The manuscript is carefully written on 36-line Sünova tracing paper. It is dated at the end "22/9/89". The measurements are numbered. There are some scratches and corrections. The title page bears the dedication "to Christophe Desjardins and Sylvain Camberling", lists the instruments, gives instructions and explains the signs on the score.
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