Hommage à Klaus Nomi, Version 1

Werktitel
Hommage à Klaus Nomi, Version 1
Untertitel
Songs für Countertenor und kleines Ensemble
KomponistIn
Beteiligte Personen (Text)
Harburg, Edgar Yipsel, Hoffmann Kristian, Tate, Nahum, Holländer Friedrich, Arlen Harold
Entstehungsjahr
1998
Überarbeitungsjahr
2008
Dauer
40m
Genre(s)
Neue Musik
Subgenre(s)
Experimental/Intermedia
Modern/Avantgarde
Gattung(en)
Ensemblemusik
Vokalmusik
Sprache (Text)
Deutsch
Englisch
Besetzung
Solostimme(n)
Kammerorchester/Ensemble
Elektronik
Besetzungsdetails

Solo: Countertenor (1)
Bassklarinette (1), Trompete (1), Violoncello (1), Kontrabass (1), Schlagzeug (1), Elektrische Gitarre (1), Synthesizer (2), Sampler (1)

revidierte Version
Solo: Countertenor (1, oder Alt)
Flöte (2), Klarinette (1), Bassklarinette (1), Trompete (2), Posaune (2), Schlagzeug (2), Elektrische Gitarre (1), Synthesizer (2), Violine (2), Violoncello (2), Kontrabass (2)


ad Trompete: auch kleine Trompete hoch in B
ad E-Gitarre: mit Multieffektgerät
ad Violoncello und Kontrabass: verstärkt

Art der Publikation
Verlag
Titel der Veröffentlichung
Hommage à Klaus Nomi

Bezugsquelle/Partitur und Stimmen: Ricordi Berlin

Abschnitte/Sätze
1. So simple (nach: "Simple Man" von Kristian Hoffmann) | 2. Remember (nach: "Death" aus "Dido und Aeneas" von Purcell / Tate) | 3. Can't help it (nach:" Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß..." / "Falling in Love again" von Friedrich Holländer) | 4. The witch (nach: "Ding Dong", aus: "The wizard of Oz" von Harold Arlen) | 5. Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte | 6. Wasting my Time | 7. You Don't Own Me | 8. Cold Song | 9. Total Eclipse

Beschreibung
"Could you tell us what your current concert, title Hommage à Klaus Nomi – a songplay in nine fits, is about?

When I was thirteen, my father bought me an LP of Klaus Nomi, who had this incredible, angel-like voice, and his songs were a combination of pop and classical music. He trained his voice by himself to become a counter tenor. It was not at all common in the seventies and eighties to perform as a counter tenor. He was from a village in Germany and he went to Berlin and then to New York. His name was originally Klaus Sperber, and then he changed it to Klaus Nomi. So he created a new identity for himself, an alien figure of a sad clown, completely pale and white, with very robotic, mechanical gestures. I was completely intrigued by him and since the age of thirteen, I was always a fan of his songs and his personality. He was one of the first famous AIDS victims and he died at the age of thirty-nine. He was a man who was obsessed by becoming someone else and trying not to fit into the rules of society, which is a very important topic – at least for me. I rearranged nine of his songs (because of the content of the text) and called them a hommage."
Olga Neuwirth
(Werkkommentar, Ricordi Berlin), abgerufen 24.06.2021 [https://www.ricordi.com/de-DE/Catalogue.aspx/details/442243]

Uraufführung
10. August 1998 - Salzburg
Veranstalter: Salzburger Festspiele
Mitwirkende: Klangforum Wien, Johannes Kalitzke (Dirigent)

Uraufführung (Fünfte weitere songs Nr. 5-9, 2008)
7. März 2008 - Berlin
Veranstalter: Märzmusik

Weitere Informationen: Fünfte weitere songs (2008)

Aufnahme
Titel:
Olga Neuwirth: Hommage à Klaus Nomi (1998)
Plattform: YouTube
Herausgeber: gɹinblat
Datum: 10.05.2021
Mitwirkende: Andrew Watts (Countertenor), Ensemble InterContemporain, Matthias Pintscher (Dirigent)

Titel: Hommage a Klaus Nomi
Plattform: YouTube
Herausgeber: theoperaoftimur
Datum: 20.02.2017
Mitwirkende: Timur (Countertenor), Julian Wachner (Dirigent)