PT Journal
AU Koay, KK
TI The Operatic Styles in Jorg Widmann's Viola Concerto
SO Musicologica Olomucensia
PY 2020
BP 81
EP 99
VL 32
IS 2
DI 10.5507/mo.2020.014
DE Jorg Widmann; Viola Concerto; operatic style
AB This study explores Jorg Widmann's operatic compositional approach found in his Viola Concerto (2015). He has created a refreshing and intriguing way of presenting the composition that differs from a conventional concerto. In it, Widmann delivers ideas and new approaches through the visual and auditory senses, allowing audiences to effectively engage in the manner he designed of the fictional world. The music takes on several roles so as to create atmosphere, emotion, dialogues, and abstract protagonists in a "story" he designed. He makes the music as dramatic and as theatrical as possible, giving a new presentation fashion in his concerto, keeping the Concerto genre alive.
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