Christoph Heptner: Carl Orff Competition 2019 Christoph Heptner (*1960): "FATA MORGANA" -Praeludium

"Fata Morgana" consists of a prelude and a fugue in which the desired motifs were created and arranged for the requirements of competition. Carl Orff's chord is immediately heard three times in the beginning and plays around the main subject of the prelude. The tense intervals of the Orff motif continue to determine (this appears twice in the original: T.90/91 und T.146/147) the entire first part to the fugue, which begins with the Mozart motif as a passacaglia, after a brief fugato that the main fugue starts. The character of the passacaglia is maintained up to the theme cue of the pedal (T. 171) and dissolves in the three-part fugue. The Mozart motif however illuminates again and again in the course of the fugue. Reductions, augmentations, reflections, as well as some small and large "retrogrades" lead the fugue in a brief coda, in which the motifs of Carl Orff, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the prelude motif reunite.
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Christoph Heptner