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Melodie for solo flute
Melodie for solo flute
Beat Furrer: Melodie for solo flute was written in 2020 and dedicated to the composer's sister, the Austrian flutist Eva Furrer, with whom he has worked closely for decades and who has acted as his advisor on flute techniques.
The piece was commissioned for the ARD Music Competition in Munich and served as the compulsory piece for the semi-finals in 2022.
Melodie is a highly virtuosic and demanding piece that explores the full spectrum of contemporary flute technique and expression. It employs a variety of special effects, including abstract sounds, specific changes in air flow, various vocal colorations, extreme registers, and multiphonics.
The title "Melodie" is particularly interesting in the context of avant-garde music. The work begins with abstract sounds, but gradually, specific pitches become more defined. A central section features a long, quarter-tone colored melody, which gives the piece its name and highlights a moment of lyrical contrast within the modern soundscape.
Furrer Beat
Beat Furrer (1954) is a prominent Swiss-born Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher, widely recognized as a leading figure in the European avant-garde music scene.
Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Furrer moved to Vienna in 1975 to study composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati and conducting with Otmar Suitner at the Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts. He has remained based in Vienna ever since.
In 1985, he co-founded the ensemble Klangforum Wien, a world-renowned contemporary music ensemble. He remains the ensemble's artistic director and conductor, a role that has allowed him to shape the interpretation of new music and collaborate closely with composers and performers.
Furrer's music is characterized by intense sound exploration, complex textures, and a fascination with the boundary between sound and noise, as well as the interplay of language and music.
Among his most notable works: opera Die Blinden (The Blind) (1989), opera FAMA (2005), and Konzert (2007) for piano and orchestra.
Since 1991 he is a professor of composition at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.