- General information
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Composition date:
1956 - 2004
- Duration: between 20 mn and 22 mn
- Publisher: Universal Edition
- Commission: Dresdner Philharmonie
- Dedication: à Yves Olivier von Winterstein
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Composition date:
1956 - 2004
- Type
- Concertant music [Percussion and ensemble/orchestra]
Detailed formation
- soloist: timpani
- 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets (also piccolo trumpet), 3 trombones, bass tuba, 14 violins, 12 second violins, 10 violas, 8 cellos, 6 double basses
Premiere information
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Date:
5 February 2005
Location:Allemagne, Dresde, Kulturpalast am Altmarkt
Performers:Alexander Peter, timbales ; Dresdner Philharmonie ; Pedro Halffter Caro, direction
Program note
Palimsesto means to write or paint something anew on a page or a canvas on which something has already existed. … I used this process on a piece which I had composed back in 1956. Of this score, I left only the formal structure intact. Over it I laid sound surfaces of various dynamic densities, resulting from my experience during the nearly 50 years spent composing since then. Hence, Palimsesto is a “new” score in which the “old” elements can still be heard, depending on where we focus our eyes or our ears.
Cristóbal Halffter, octobre 2004