componist
gerelateerde werken
Penelope : for oboe / Pauline Oostenrijk
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Hobo
Bezetting:
ob
Sonate : voor hobo-solo, 1947, (revisie 1986) / Wim Franken
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Hobo
Bezetting:
ob
Alla notturna : per 2 oboi, oboe d'amore e corno inglese, (1971) / Nico Schuyt
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Hobo
Bezetting:
2ob ob-am eh
Balocco : musica per oboe-solo / di Jurriaan Andriessen
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Hobo
Bezetting:
ob
compositie
Penelope : for oboe / Pauline Oostenrijk
Toelichting:
According to Greek mythology, Penelope waited 20 years for the final return of her husband Odysseus. To delay her many suitors, she pretended to be weaving a burial shroud for Odysseus's elderly father Laertes and claimed that she would choose a suitor when she would be finished. However, every night, she would undo part of the shroud.
The composition depicts Penelope's lonely, sometimes desperate, talking-to-herself and her longing for Odysseus, as well as her working on the weaving loom (from bar 33) and pulling out the result afterwards.
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