Judit Varga: Fenster

for clarinet in Bb/basset horn, violoncello and piano

(2020)

Windows (Twelve Wondrous Worlds in Lockdown)

In March 2020, the first Covid-19-induced lockdown began in Austria. At that moment, our previous life abruptly stopped and something completely new for us arrived. I interrupted all my compositional work from one day to the next and had the feeling that it was no longer relevant, since these compositions did not reflect reality. For months I could not compose. The same idea kept preoccupying me: how do people live in the lockdown? What happens in the apartments, in these isolated micro-worlds, which remain closed from us?

I composed the piece »Fenster« in December 2020, during the second lockdown in Austria. It’s like a life-size Advent calendar: we open twelve windows one after the other and look into the respective world behind them. Each movement of the piece lasts 90 seconds–exactly as long as each window remains open. We can open the windows in any order. The choice and order of the movements are left to the musicians. Thus, the piece can be played in countless variations. The total duration varies from 90 seconds to 18 minutes.

The musicians probably find the greatest challenge in this piece in the representation of twelve worlds with extremely different characters and the creation of a large musical-dramaturgical arc over the entire piece.

(Judit Varga)

Judit Varga (born 1979 in Hungary) lives and works in Vienna. Since 2013 she teaches composition, applied and film music at the Franz Liszt Music University Budapest. Since October 2019 she is professor of media composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Judit Varga works with international orchestras and ensembles. The Hungarian State Opera performed her opera Szerelem (Love) in 2016/17. From the Austrian Film Academy Judit Varga received the award »Best Music« in 2014 for her soundtrack to the cinema production »Your Beauty is Worth Nothing«. Varga was awarded the Outstanding Artist Award by the Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture in 2022.

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