Fifty-Eight



Category: Musical composition
Dated: New York City, March 27, 1992
Instrumentation: for 58 wind players: 3 piccolos; 4 flutes; 3 alto flutes; 4 oboes; 3 English horns; 4 B clarinets; 3 bass clarinets; 4 bassoons; 3 contrabassoons; 3 soprano saxophones; 3 alto saxophones; 3 tenor saxophones; 3 baritone saxophones; 4 horns; 4 trumpets; 4 tenor trombones; 3 tubas
Duration: 45'
Premiere and performer(s): October 11, 1992 in the Landhaushof in Graz, Austria during the Steirischer Herbst Festival. Performance by the Pannonisches Blasorchester, conducted by Wim van Zutphen
Dedicated to: for the Pannonisches Blasorchester
Choreography: ---
Published: Edition Peters 67500 © 1992 by Henmar Press
Manuscript: 58 parts (Typescript [i.e. computer print-out] with holograph annotations in ink - 155 lvs.) in New York Public Library


Every part consists of 5 double sheets with flexible time brackets. The parts contain between 64 and 71 individual notes each. Dynamics and accentuation are left upto the performers.
The work was commissioned by Solf Schaefer, head of music at Austrian Radio's provincial studio in Graz. It was written especially to be performed in the "Landhaushof" in Graz with the performers to be positioned in the 58 arches of this courtyard.