Composer Peter Schindler on this separate edition from Perpetuum mobile:
Money and power, a theme as old as time. Stock market scandals, law-breaking, fraud, drug dealing, prostitution, war – money is always the common element. Money (Nummus) rules the world. Always has done, always will. Even as early as around 1200 these bitter truths about the power of money were clear to a wide audience. Text no. 11 in the Codex Buranus relentlessly, vividly describes the countless shady connections between power and money, whether generally illegal or bordering a gray area, and yet the song ends with the hope that maybe wisdom itself cannot be corrupted.
The music is stoic, rhythmically precise, without ritardandi and with a slightly rocky, nasty touch. The main line “In terra summus rex es hoc tempore nummus” (In these times money is the mightiest ruler in the world) is almost chanted.
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Peter Schindler
| 1960Composer, pianist and organist Peter Schindler writes and performs music for ballets and theatrical performances, films and dramatic recordings, instrumental and choral arrangements, chansons and sacred works. He is particularly passionate about his compositions for children and young adults, which has come to comprise hundreds of humourous children’s songs (Kinderhits mit Witz). His full-length musicals include Geisterstunde auf Schloss Eulenstein (Witching Hour at Eulenstein Castle), Max und die Käsebande (Max and the Cheese Gang), König Keks (Cookie King), Zirkus Furioso (Circus Allegro), and SCHOCKORANGE. These musicals are some of the most frequently played pieces of their kind by children’s and youth choirs in German-speaking theaters and schools. With his first English musical Circus Allegro, Peter’s hugely sucessful work for all kids under 100 is now also accessible to audiences around the world.
For further information visit: http://peter-schindler.de/
We asked the composer 6 questions, read them here in our blog: https://blog.carus-verlag.com/en/personalities/5-questions-for-peter-schindler/
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