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Philipp Maintz's Der Zerfall einer Illusion in farbige Scherben Premiered by the WDR Symphony Orchestra

Jun. 28, 2024

Under the baton of Sylvain Cambreling, the WDR Symphony Orchestra premiered Philipp Maintz's Der Zerfall einer Illusion in farbige Scherben ("The disintegration of an illusion into coloured shards") at the Funkhaus Wallrafplatz in Cologne on June 22 alongside Peter Eötvös's Mese, Toshio Hosokawa's Erdbeben. Träume Suite, and Lisa Streich's Meduse.

Der Zerfall einer Illusion in farbige Scherben is the title of a 2021 painting by the young Leipzig painter Gustav Sonntag, in which abrupt contrasts collide. Sonntag observes the present with an unsparing and socially critical eye. Philipp Maintz took the title and created an orchestral work about the memory of a special awareness of life, which the composer describes thus: “We thought that from now onwards, the world would only be good and the music we had danced to would get faster and faster.” His work is a kaleidoscope, a combining and contrasting of sound worlds – out of “coloured shards” a new, mosaic-like sound world has been created. Read more in [t]aktehere.

In the 2024/25 season, Philipp Maintz will be featured as “Composer in Focus” by the Symphony Orchestra of his native city, Aachen. As part of this partnership, the ensemble, led by Christopher Ward with Joonas Ahonen on piano, will perform the German premiere of Maintz's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra on September 22-23, 2024 followed by the world premiere of his orchestral work approximate sonata on February 16-17, 2025.

Listen to Philipp Maintz's clamitationes colonienses (2020):

clamitationes colonienses/Philipp Maintz/The Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne/François-Xavier Roth, conductor

To learn more about Philipp Maintz, visit baerenreiter.com.

Philipp Maintz
Der Zerfall einer Illusion in farbige Scherben (2023-24)
for obbligato accordion and orchestra
2(pic, afl).1.eh.2(bcl).2(cbn)-2.2.1.1-timp.2perc–hpd-str(8.8.6.4.2)
15'

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