Furrer: Drei Klavierstucke (2004) (Hodges)

Beat Furrer was born in Schaffhausen (Switzerland) in 1954 and received his first musical training on piano at the Music School there. After moving to Vienna in 1975, he studied conducting with Otmar Suitner and composition with Roman Haubenstock Ramati at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst. In 1985 he founded the Klangforum Wien, which he directed until 1992, and with which he is still associated as conductor. Commissioned by the Vienna State Opera, he composed his first opera Die Blinden. His second opera Narcissus was premiered in 1994 as part of the Festival “steirischer herbst” at the Graz Opera. In 1996 he was composer-in-residence at the Lucerne Festival. His music theatre work Begehren was premiered in Graz in 2001, the opera invocation in Zürich in 2003 and the sound theatre piece FAMA in Donaueschingen in 2005. In autumn 1991 Furrer became a full professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Graz. He has been guest professor in composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt 2006-2009. Together with violinist Ernst Kovacic he founded "impuls", a International Ensemble and Composers Academy for Contemporary Music. In 2004 he was awarded the Music Prize of the City of Vienna, and in 2005 became a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. He was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2006 for his work FAMA. In 2010 his music theatre Wüstenbuch was premiered in Basel. In 2014 he was awarded with Great Austrian State Prize. In 2018 he received the Ernst-von-Siemens music prize in recognition of his lifetime's compositional outoput. His latest opera La Bianca Notte based on texts by Dino Campana, was premiered in Hamburg in spring 2015. In January 2019 his new opera Violetter Schnee (Violet Snow) with a libretto by Händl Klaus based on a libretto by Vladimir Sorokin premiered at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. Since the 1980s Beat Furrer has composed a wide range of works, from solo and ensemble music to orchestral and choral works and opera. He is well know for his nuanced exploration of the human voice and its relationship to instrumental sound.
0:00 - I.
8:56 - II.
11:51 - III.

[@Scriabinfan593]

I really like this. I should listen to more of Beat Furrer!

[@achoikomposition]

Yes you should :>

[@KaikhosruShapurjiMedtner]

11:53 the sounds my brain makes when I’m in a music lesson

[@machida5114]

so good...

[@christophegeoffroy4281]

Still here

[@UtsyoChakraborty]

Excellent!

[@syroyid]

I did some research on Beat Furrer's music and presented some of in international conferences. All I can say, is that I find this music fascinating. It is very well written and a lot of work goes into every detail. Fantastic composition! Do you have a favorite piece by Beat Furrer?

[@barsik2222]

Would it be possible to read your articles /presentations on the subject?

[@theclarinetjooddsandends3753]

The second pieced surprised me. Didn't know Beat Furrer used octatonic scale harmonies!

[@RachManJohn]

I really do enjoy this a lot more than Phasma.

[@SaintDeus]

great

[@yesyes3220]

based

[@sukrithkishor7021]

bonk

[@yesyes3220]

@@sukrithkishor7021 balls

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[@jenniferborkowski9262]

The chords at the end don't even sound like a piano. Is it the composition, the playing, or both? Amazing how they changed timbre to a point where I got a little lost.

[@emminsayago7763]

i share with you my version of the second movement of the same piece!, hope you can listen !
ruclips.net/video/AA0wL_QPVL4/видео.html

[@user-nb3zl5py6s]

好きー

[@lucabortoluzzi8103]

Hi, thanks for sharing! I was wondering which edition of the score did you used for the video, because mine (Barenreiter 2009) shows a different pedal indication at 11:28 .
Thank you! :)

[@handledav]

furrer

[@arnoldwohler]

Irgendwie eine Reminiszenz an Bartok ...

[@arturoguadagnini4622]

Diarrea Music

[@ZewenShifu]

based Furrer

[@feinburger5404]

furry

[@philippeboisson2048]

Le chat marche sur le clavier
Foutage de gueule.

[@michelprezman51]

Très chiant. Esthétique d'une autre époque qu'on croyais révolue.

[@PaulVinonaama]

yawn

[@SimonSimon-rn3tm]

Who could be bothered to read this nonsense when the end result is rot?!

[@whatsthatnoise5955]

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[@jlimusic8538]

maybe after enough listens you'll understand

[@supasayajinsongoku4464]

​​@@jlimusic8538e will surely understand but we are surely mislead, this is music for us and only us.

[@keithtomlinson1280]

It is rather sad that there is always some self indulgent ignorant pleb who feels the need to disparage something they do not understand. Not liking something is a perfectly respectable position. But arrogantly dismissing it as “rot” simply demonstrates small minded ignorance.

[@arielorthmann4061]

Because it's so beautiful

[@peterrobinson6904]

Pure musical crap