Category: Chamber Music , Recordings
This simple, nameless closing music from the feature film ‘Ohne Dich’ (Without You) has always touched people in a way that I find very mysterious, making them feel ‘otherworldly.’ Repeated requests prompted me to orchestrate it as a single concert edition for the Ries & Erler Berlin publishing house. And I gave the name ELEGY. BEYOND THE LONGING" to this piece of music. Further uses of the motif in other works also had this magical effect of simplicity.
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Duration: 4 Minuten
Publisher of notes/sheet music: , 2024
Instrumentation: Solovioline und Streichorchester
(als Soloinstrument sind auch Flöte, Klarinette oder Sopransaxophon möglich adaptierbar)
Introduction: This elegy is very cinematic: it was composed as the closing credits music for Florian Baxmeyer's 2013 psychological drama ‘Ohne Dich’ (Without You) for Odeon-TV Wiesbaden on behalf of Degeto/ARD. Martina (played by Stefanie Stappenbeck) mysteriously and suddenly loses her beloved boyfriend during a sailing holiday in Brittany. The search for the missing or dead man becomes a nightmare between hope, hallucination and a longing that turns into delusion.
This highly emotional motif has become one of my favourite melodies, which I have quoted and varied in several compositions: in BARAKA – BLESSING POWER for violin and piano, in the oratorio KABBALA – WEGE DES LICHTS (Kabbalah – Paths of Light), in the concerto for four cellos and orchestra PIK, KREUZ, DIAMOND & HEART, where it serves as the motif of the ‘Queen of Hearts’.
World premiere: 20.04.2025
Records: 2025
