Name: Fox, Christopher: The air is just desire
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Fox, Christopher: The air is just desire

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Arrangement: for soprano and string quartet
Edition Type: score
Publisher: Composers Edition
Catalogue Number: ce-cf1tajd1
Pages: 60
Date Published: 22nd Sep 2022

The air is just desire was written between 2017 and 2022 for Juliet Fraser and Quatuor Bozzini and was premiered by them in the Great Hall, Dartington on 17th August 2022. The text was written by Kate Wakeling. The first five stanzas describe portraits made by Richard Gerstl (1883-1908) of Arnold Schoenberg, the Schoenberg family and Mathilde Schoenberg (geb. Zemlinsky). Mathilde and Gerstl became lovers and the passages in italics are taken from Mathilde Schoenberg’s letters to her husband, written in June and August 1908 as their marriage was ending, and from Mathilde’s letters to Alois Gerstl (Richard’s brother), written in November 1908 after Richard’s suicide. The final section echoes a number of words and phrases from ‘Litanei’ and ‘Entrückung’, the poems by Stefan George that Schoenberg sets in the latter two movements of his String Quartet No. 2, op. 10, first performed in 1908. Mathilde’s relationship with Gerstl is usually considered only as the catalyst for the change in Schoenberg’s musical language that is delineated in the op. 10 Quartet; in The air is just desire it is instead Mathilde who becomes the subject.

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