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Labyrinthum continui

Composer
Elia Alessio
Original / Hungarian title
Labyrinthum continui
Foreign language / English title
Labyrinthum continui
Subtitle
For orchestra
Year of composition
2016
Type
Orchestral work
Instrumentation
2 fl. (II anche picc.), 2 ob., 2 cl., (II anche cl.b.), 2 fg. - 2 cor. (Double-horns, used also as cor. natural), 2 tr. (mutes: cardboard straight, metal straight, cup), 2 trb. (mutes: cardboard straight, metal straight, cup), tuba (always with metal straight mute) - 3 timp. (1 esec.), perc. (2 esec. - I: campli., crot., ptto.ch., ptto. on tom., gong; II: vibr., tam-tam, ptto.sosp. (medium), vibratone, tmb.picc.c.c., gr.c.) - arpa - strings: vl. 1 (divided in A and B), vl. 2 (divided in A and B), vla., vla. 1, vla. 2, vlc. 1, vlc. 2, cb. (if possible at least one Double-bass with V string tuned to low C)
Duration
12 min
Movements, parts
One movement
Premiere information
9 December 2016, International Leibniz´s Harmonies Composition Competition, Hannover, Germany; NDR Radiophilharmonie, Jonathan Stockhammer (cond.)
Publisher / Source
MS - Copyright 2016 by Alessio Elia
Available here!
Remarks, other info
The piece is based on Leibniz´s ideas about music that he expresses in the correspondences occurring with doctor Günther Christoph Schelhammer, the Italian mathematician Bernardino Zendrini, and above all with the mathematicians Christian Goldbach and Conrad Henfling.

III prize winner composition at the 2016 International Leibniz´s Harmonies Composition Competition in Hannover, Germany (Musik für heute e.v - Hannover)