PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Koay, Kheng K.
TI  - The Operatic Styles in Jörg Widmann's Viola Concerto
DP  - 2020 Dec 11
TA  - Musicologica Olomucensia
PG  - 81--99
VI  - 32
IP  - 2
AID - 10.5507/mo.2020.014
IS  - 27879186
AB  - This study explores Jörg 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.