- General information
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Composition date:
1995 - 1996
- Duration: 18 mn
- Publisher: Schirmer
- Commission: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Dedication: Pierre Boulez ; Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
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Composition date:
1995 - 1996
- Type
- Instrumental ensemble music [Instrumental ensemble music]
Detailed formation
- 3 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets (also contrabass clarinet), 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 2 trumpets [en do] , piccolo trumpet [en la] (also trumpet [en do] ), 2 trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, 4 percussions, harp, piano, strings
Premiere information
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Date:
12 December 1996
Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra ; Pierre Boulez, direction.
Table of contents
I. …words of the sea…
II. …the ever-hooded, tragic-gestured sea…
III. …beyond the genius of the sea…
IV. …mountainous atmospheres of sky and sea… (Homage to Debussy)