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Stookey, Nathaniel
1970-0000
(b San Francisco, 1970). American
The Composer is Dead <2006>
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The work includes a Marche funèbre, which quotes brief passages from celebrated orchestral works of the past. In some concert performances, the work as a whole has been preceded by slightly longer "supplementary excerpts" from these same works, and even a preliminary performance of the Marche funèbre itself. The composer endorses this practice, though it is by no means necessary.
The "supplementary excerpts":
1. Beethoven: Marcia funebre from Sym. No.3, bars 1–16.
2. Mahler: Sym. No.5, bars 1–33.
3. Schubert: Sym. No.8, bars 42–104.
4. Tchaikovsky: Sym. No.6, 4th mvt, bars 1–18.
5. Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, 5th mvt, bars 146–206.
Source of text: Lemony Snicket. Language: English
The "supplementary excerpts":
1. Beethoven: Marcia funebre from Sym. No.3, bars 1–16.
2. Mahler: Sym. No.5, bars 1–33.
3. Schubert: Sym. No.8, bars 42–104.
4. Tchaikovsky: Sym. No.6, 4th mvt, bars 1–18.
5. Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, 5th mvt, bars 146–206.
Source of text: Lemony Snicket. Language: English
A "whodunit" with text by Lemony Snicket. The composer is dead. An Inspector comes to investigate. He questions all the instruments of the orchestra, as well as the conductor, but all have alibis. "Besides," they say, "all of us have murdered a composer at one time or another… If you want to hear the work of the world's greatest composers, you're going to have to allow for a little murder here and there."