Description
Triandafila – Duo for Horn and Flute by Barbara Heller
Includes 2 scores
Triandafila, the “thirty petalled rose” has been commissioned by Ada Gentile for flutist Carin Levine and horn-player Urla Kahl, for the 18th Festival di Musica Contemporanea “Noevi Spazi Musicali” in Rome, 1997. Triandafila is an imaginative composition with insisting repetitions, simple intervals – preferably the fifth – rhythmic pulsations and ever-returning points of rest. Traditional notation.
German composer Barbara Heller was born in 1936 in Ludwigshafen, where her father was an art restorer and conservator. She studied music in Mannheim and Munich and taught piano at the Mannheim Academy of Music from 1958 to 1962. Two of her notable teachers were Hans Vogt and Harold Genzmer.