Ny hemsida! Tidigare kund? Skapa nytt konto nedan.
Schnelzer, Albert
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Even as a child I had always a special fascination for puppets and marionettes. The
plays and especially the dolls had something ambivalent about them and the puppet
theatre often contained both comedy, violence and deep tragedy. The writer Wallace
Fowlie described this contrast in his essay “Petrouchka’s Wake” with the words: “He
[Petrouchka] is already, at the beginning of each performance, in the domain of death”.
The jerkiness and the unpredictability of the puppets makes us laugh but the brutal
violence and tragic events also makes us cry. The Puppeteer is the hidden force and
almost godlike being behind all these events and controls every little movement of the
puppets with the invisible strings attached to them. The puppets dance, fight and love
with no apparent control of their doings and they invariably get tangled up in their
strings. The voice of the oboe is the voice of the puppets as they laugh, as they mock,
as they fall and as they rise again. In spite of their lack of independency they sing and
dance defiantly until the very end.
The Oboe Sonata is dedicated to my dear friend François Leleux.
Albert Schnelzer
