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Karol Beffa

Beffa: On the Dust I Love

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Gérard Billaudot Éditeur  |  SKU: GB10147  |  Barcode: 9790043101475
  • Composer: Karol Beffa (1973-)
  • Format: Vocal Score
  • Instrumentation (this edition): Piano Reduction, Mezzo Soprano
  • Originally for: Orchestra, Mezzo Soprano
  • Work: On the Dust I Love
  • ISMN: 9790043101475

Description

Lord Byron

When Bruno Messina commissioned me to compose a work for voice and orchestra on a text by Lord Byron, which would be premiered in French at the 2019 edition of the Berlioz Festival (at the Côte-St-André), I thought of his poem On the Death of a Young Lady. It was written in memory of his recently deceased cousin Margaret Parker, by a poet aged on/y 14. Two years earlier, Byron had already dedicated another poem to the young woman in which he confessed his love. Poetry of mourning, a poignant piece... the gravity of the poem led me to set it to music for mezzo-soprano. The lamentation begins with a knell on the harp, continues in its central part with a denser counterpoint built on a chromatic collapse, and concludes with a rocking of chords opening onto an eternity less fanereal than eased.

Karol Beffa

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Gérard Billaudot Éditeur

Beffa: On the Dust I Love

¥3,900

Description

Lord Byron

When Bruno Messina commissioned me to compose a work for voice and orchestra on a text by Lord Byron, which would be premiered in French at the 2019 edition of the Berlioz Festival (at the Côte-St-André), I thought of his poem On the Death of a Young Lady. It was written in memory of his recently deceased cousin Margaret Parker, by a poet aged on/y 14. Two years earlier, Byron had already dedicated another poem to the young woman in which he confessed his love. Poetry of mourning, a poignant piece... the gravity of the poem led me to set it to music for mezzo-soprano. The lamentation begins with a knell on the harp, continues in its central part with a denser counterpoint built on a chromatic collapse, and concludes with a rocking of chords opening onto an eternity less fanereal than eased.

Karol Beffa

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