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Title:
Pater noster Part Two of: 2 Latin Motets for mixed Choir a.c. (2001/01)
1. In principio 2. Pater noster
Composer
Wolfram Wagner (1962)
Year of composition
2001
Instrumentation
mixed choir a.c.
Duration
12 min.
Place of premiere performance
Wien, Konzerthaus (only 1. in principio)
Date of premiere performance
2005-06-18
Performers
Chorus sine nomine / Johannes Hiemetzberger
Score
Publisher: Musikverlag Doblinger, Dorotheergasse 10, A 1010 Wien
URL: composer: www.wolfram-wagner.com publisher : http://www.doblinger-musikverlag.at/
Email: music@doblinger.at
Edition-No.: 42879 Pater noster (Nr. 2 aus 2 lateinische Motetten für gemischten Chor a. capp.)
Price: please contact by email
Motivation
Wolfram Wagner is one of the most interesting and distinguished Austrian composers, his huge work list includes operas, 1 ballet, 2 oratorios, several orchestral works, chamber music, songs and a large amount of choral works in all degrees of difficulty. His Latin motet Pater noster is a challenge for a good and ambitious professional or very skilled amateur choir. Wagner’s style harmonizes high emotional and formal density, his works are often grounded in strict formal, tonal, metrical, even mathematical concepts, other pieces or movements are composed very freely. In this particular choral work a gregorian chant is layed into a strictly symmetrically designed construction of harmonic and melodic progression. The old melody, the medieval tonality and the modern approach in setting the words into music complement each other in a special way.
Press quotation about a former choral-work:Honest, clearly understandable, deeply moving music. Music that reverberates, that is magical. A rainbow of sound as a token of freedom. (Remark: Gebete der Welt, Augustinerkirche Wien)
Wiener Zeitung 19950702 [English Version]
Programme Note
The Motet Pater Noster ist based on the Gregorian melody, which spreads as cantus firmus throughout the whole composition. In five runs (passages) the musical material is gradually
expanding more and more, and leads to dramatic climaxes and eruptions, in which the singing alters to shouting and crying, before the melody – again in its original form, but widely fanned out – leads to a finish in pianissimo
Text:
Pater noster, qui es in caelis,
sanctificetur nomen tuum;
adveniat regnum tuum;
fiat voluntas tua,
sicut in caelo, et in terra.
Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie;
et dimitte nobis debita nostra,
sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris;
et ne nos inducas in tentationem;
sed libera nos a malo.
Composer Biography
Wolfram Wagner (www.wolfram-wagner.com)
Occupational Career:
born on 28. 9. 1962 in Vienna, studied composition at the Universität für Musik in Vienna with Erich Urbanner and Francis Burt.
Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Robert Saxton.
Musikhochschule Frankfurt with Hans Zender.
Since 1992 professor in harmony and counterpoint at the Universität für Musik in Vienna, lectures at the Conservatory in Pariser Konservatorium and at the Universities in Amsterdam and Greensboro/USA.
Awards and Distinctions:
winner of the international Anton Bruckner Price Linz 1997
Publicity Price from Austro Mechana 1995
1993 Composer in residence at the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, London
Works written for/commissioned by:
Wiener Musikverein
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Europäischer Musikmonat Basel
Carinthischer Sommer
Neue Oper Wien
Donaufestival
Neue Oper Austria
Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna
Vienna Jeunesse Orchestra
Vienna Chamber Orchestra
Ensemble Kontrapunkte
St.Stephan/Vienna and St.Augustin/Vienna
Haydn-Trio Vienna
Vienna String Sextet
Vienna Saxophone Quartet
Ernst Kovacic
Milan Turkovic
Christian Altenburger
Elena Denisova (elena-denisova.com)
Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Spirit of Europe
Wiener Sängerknaben u. a.
Compositions (see also: www.wolfram-wagner.com)
3 operas, 1 ballet, 2 oratorios, several orchestral works, chamber music, works for choir and songs (see also list of works at his Homepage)
performances and broadcastings in many European countries, in India, Japan, USA and South America
several CD productions (ORF, Gramola, Extraplatte, Vienna Modern Masters, KKM Records et al.)
Publishers: Doblinger, Helbling, apoll edition, edition contemp art, NÖ Musikedition