Der Handschuh (Waterhouse)
| Der Handschuh | |
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| by Graham Waterhouse | |
Composer Graham Waterhouse, 2011
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| Year | 2005 |
| Period | contemporary |
| Text | Schiller: Der Handschuh |
| Published | 2007: Wilhelmshaven Heinrichshofen's Verlag |
| Movements | 1 |
| Scoring | cello, speaking voice |
Der Handschuh (The Glove) is a composition by Graham Waterhouse. He wrote the setting of Schiller's ballad for cello and speaking voice in 2005. It was published in 2007 in Heinrichshofen's Verlag.
Graham Waterhouse composed Der Handschuh in 2005, as a kind of melodrama in the tradition of spoken narrative to instrumental accompaniment, such as ballads by Robert Schumann and Richard Strauss, a crucial scene of Weber's opera Der Freischütz and 20th century settings by Schoenberg, William Walton, Henze and Poulenc's L'Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant. It is the composer's first major work for the combination of Sprechstimme (speaking voice) and his instrument, the cello. Until then he had occasionally set texts to music for the unusual scoring. In 1995 he wrote Vezza, a limerick on whether/weather as a German might pronounce it, recorded in 2002 with the composer speaking and playing. In 2001 he set Flohlied (Song of the Flea), the satirical song from Goethe's Faust I, to music, published by Heinrichshofen's Verlag. The final poem of his song cycle Sechs späteste Lieder (six latest songs, 2003) after Friedrich Hölderlin for mezzo-soprano and cello is spoken.
He composed Der Handschuh in 2005 for the 200th anniversary of Schiller's death. Following its success, he wrote more frequently for the combination of cello and speaking voice. In 2006 he set to music Animalia, three funny poems on animals by Hans Krieger. In 2007 he wrote Das Hexen-Einmaleins (The Witches One-Times-One), again from Goethe's Faust and published by Heinrichshofen's Verlag in 2009., the dramatic monologue Aases Himmelfahrt from Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt,Gruselett after Christian Morgenstern's nonsense poem for three speaking voices and string trio, and Belsatzar on Heinrich Heine's Romanze. In 2010 he composed Der Werwolf after a poem by Morgenstern, and a different setting The Banshee on its English version by Max Knight.
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