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Franco Donatoni - Lumen for Piccolo, Clarinet, Celeste, Vibraphone, Viola & 'Cello (1975)

This is one of the pivotal works in the career of Italian modernist composer Franco Donatoni (1927 - 2000), composed during a period of creative crisis during which he changed his musical style radically.
Born in Verona, Donatoni at first composed in a style derived from Bartók. Then Pierre Boulez was his major influence, leading him to become an important serialist composer and teacher. John Cage led him to what he had called his period of \"negativity,\" and from the early 1970s the depression-prone composer entered a bleak personal period when he questioned his entire aesthetic. Up to that time he was known for composing by automatic processes: He would begin with some small fragment of music by himself or another composer and then subject it to a pre-planned transformation process, not knowing what the results of these transformations would be. The resulting works were generally in the form of a series of \"panels\" resulting from the transformations.
This work is a tribute, or \"tombeau\" in the French Baroque tradition, to the important Italian serial composer Luigi Dallapiccola, composed a few weeks after Dallapiccola's death. True to form, Donatoni used a musical starting point: thematic material from a musical sketch found on Dallapiccola's piano's music rest and titled \"Lumen.\"
During the extended period of depression following his mother's death in 1973, Donatoni had resolved to quit composing and devote himself to his composition class at the Accademia Chigi in Sienna. He had adopted the sterile notion that the notated results of his musical calculations were the music, and had no interest in what happened to the notes after he inked them -- in other words, performers were irrelevant to him. His scores were dense agglomerations of the notes the resulted from his processes.
Although he considered himself retired from composing, he did have a commitment, which his wife convinced him he should honor, to write a work for eight colleagues for the 1976 Chigiana Festival. Donatoni began work on the work, Ash, and, the process of composition being begun again, also quickly composed Lumen for six players.
He still used a transformational process that he applied to the starting-point fragment of music, but now his approach was to create varied and diverse instrumental lines for specific soloists. Now he had the pleasure of working with specific musicians, which further stimulated him and led to a fruitful relationship with the chamber group Ensemble 2E2M, conducted by Paul Méfano.
Donatoni's Lumen is for six instruments in groups of two: viola and cello (who take the rhythmic elements in the piece), celesta and vibraphone (a harmonic role), with sweeping and colorful arpeggios and some chords that add color to the strings' rhythms, and the piccolo and bass clarinet, who play a sweeping song against the other instruments' rhythms, colors, and harmonies.
The work is four-and-a-half minutes long and despite its atonality carries the listener through logic and the gentleness and attractiveness of its tone colors. Written by Joseph Stevenson

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