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Nachtmusik

NachtmusikYakov Gubanov
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Nachtmusik was written in 1995 in Weimar; it was commissioned by my colleagues and friends Reinhard Wolschina, Axel Schmidt, and Marie Luise Ewald, who founded a trio of unique instrumental combination: piano, oboe, and cello: “Trio PianOvo". The remarkable virtuosity and musicality of this ensemble, together with the enchanting mix of timbres, were a powerful source of inspiration for this piece.

In the years that I lived in Weimar I developed the habit of taking long late night walks along the Ilm river. Nachtmusik came as a result of these.

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While taking my long strolls amidst magnificent chestnuts, maples, and linden trees, I could hear distinct echoes of the park's legendary past, whose alleys were trod by Goethe and Schiller, Liszt and Nietzsche, Gropius and Kandinsky. As a young man, Johann Sebastian Bach had lived just steps away from the Ilm River, and I could easily envision him leading little Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emmanuel on walks into the woods, while explaining the difference between major and minor modes.

 

The lofty spirit of this place, the distant chime of the city bells, the enigmatic calls of the night birds - all this gradually transformed into music. The entire score of Nachtmusik finally crystallized in my head, and it took just two days to put it on paper.

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Nachtmusik has had a lucky destiny; it has been performed many times in Germany, Finland, Switzerland, and the USA; it has been broadcast on radio programs, released on CD, and also published by Musikverlag Hans Sikorsky of Hamburg.

Nachtmusic Score - First Page
Weimar Ilm Park

Park an der Ilm in Weimar

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