componist
David Rowland werd op 31 mei 1939 geboren in Exeter (Engeland). Hij overleed op 5 november 2007 te Oldenzaal.
Opleiding
Hij studeerde compositie bij Peter Racine Fricker en piano bij Arthur Alexander ...
gerelateerde werken
Tropisms : for 10 instruments, 1979 / David Rowland
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Gemengd ensemble (2-11 spelers)
Bezetting:
fl(pic) ob cl cl-b fg h trp trb perc pf
Quartett : for 4 clarinets / Frank den Herder
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Klarinet
Bezetting:
2cl cl-basset cl-b
Mallard : for clarinet in B flat / Reza Nakisa
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Klarinet
Bezetting:
cl
Calling : from the Miniatures for bass clarinet (edited by Fie Schouten) / Calliope Tsoupaki
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Klarinet
Bezetting:
cl-b
compositie
Leonardo's mirror I : for clarinet, 1985 / David Rowland
Toelichting:
Program note (English): Leonardo's Mirror I, for solo clarinet was written in 1985 for Walter Hekster and first performed in the Vestzak Theatre in Enschede. The Leonardo in the title is Leonardo da Pisa, an Italian mathematician, born in the 13th century, who was the first person to express its classical proportions of the Golden Section in concrete numbers. I have used two series of numbers proposed by Leonardo da Pisa to control not only its structure of the music but also the internal relationships of pitch, rhythm, phrase lengths, etc. Since composing Leonardo's Mirror I, I have also written Leonardo's Mirror II for flute, clarinet and alto-saxophone and Leonardo's Mirror III which is an Octet for flute, clarinet, altosaxophone, violin, viola, cello, piano and percussion. Each of the 3 compositions is a re-working of the ideas first used in Leonardo's Mirror I with ensembles whose increasingly larger instrumental size is also determined by Leonardo's mathematical series. - DAVID ROWLAND