Composer Peter Schindler on this separate edition from Perpetuum mobile:
“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity [in this world]”. Baroque poet Andreas Gryphius was referring directly to the passage from Ecclesiastes 1:2 when he wrote his poem “Es ist alles eitel” (All is vanity) in 1637. Text no. 39 from the Codex Buranus is also inspired by this thought.
This movement with the tempo marking Allegro deciso deals resolutely with this “truth”. Fugal sections and repetitive homophonic passages hammer the word “vanity" into an imaginary world. The result is an ironic fatalism that nevertheless encompasses confidence and courage. The music carries the determination and the challenge to take things as they are.
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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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