"TurmMusik / Tower Music - Full Score" Sheet Music by Alexander Goehr

$30.99 USD 
Scored For: 2 Clarinets, Brass And Strings With Solo Baritone
Composers: Alexander Goehr
Pages: 84
This product does NOT support transposition or digital playback
SKU: 485484
Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Series: Music Of Our Time
Publisher ID: Q21267

This major work from Alexander Goehr reflects upon the diametrically opposing roles towers can have. The composer writes ‘Towers embody the idea of climbing upwards, in the spiritual as much as in the physical sense. Their destruction can be regarded as a punishment (or as a rescue from) man’s overwhelming arrogance.’ Using texts by Franz Kafka, 17th century mystic Jacob Boehme and Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Goehr explores man’s desire to build towers to draw closer to God whilst the works feel nothing but despair at the fruitfulness of such a task.