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- Asbjørn Schaathun
Stilleben (1978)
- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
Programme Note
Stilleben for cello and piano was composed after having read "Lust for life" by Irving Stone (1903-1989), a biographical novel based Vincent van Gogh¹s tragic life hence the title "Stilleben".
The work was revised for practical purposes in 1991 and 1999, but remains to all intents and purposes the same piece I composed as a sixteen-year-old. The work is built on an underlying twelve-note row, but after an extended break which divides the piece in two, the underlying structures no longer seem capable of supporting the music. The "weak-willed" notes suddenly find new strength in the repetition of a melodic fragment, however, bringing the piece to its climax.
Asbjørn Schaathun, September 2004
The work was revised for practical purposes in 1991 and 1999, but remains to all intents and purposes the same piece I composed as a sixteen-year-old. The work is built on an underlying twelve-note row, but after an extended break which divides the piece in two, the underlying structures no longer seem capable of supporting the music. The "weak-willed" notes suddenly find new strength in the repetition of a melodic fragment, however, bringing the piece to its climax.
Asbjørn Schaathun, September 2004