Michael Finnissy

WAM

Forces or Category: Flute, bass clarinet, piano

for flute, bass clarinet, and piano
WAM is an investigation of Mozart - it uses hundreds of slightly altered fragments of, or parodies of, his music - and, instead of assembling them as he might if he were composing, allows them to float by rather as he might if he were daydreaming. Finnissy is making a point about the way we listen to music two hundred years after its composition - usually without a sense of the adventure of putting it together from scratch.

WAM

Michael Finnissy

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For flute, bass clarinet, and piano, WAM - is an investigation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - it uses hundreds of slightly altered fragments of, or parodies of, his music - and, instead of assembling them as he might if he were composing, allows them to float by rather as he might if he was daydreaming. Perhaps it might seem like bad archaelogy, discovering the shards but not having the skill to re-create the original: but I wanted to make some sort of point about the way we listen to

WAM

Michael Finnissy

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