{"id":6435,"date":"2021-03-29T12:45:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T10:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/blog\/critiques-ironies\/"},"modified":"2022-01-14T13:32:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T12:32:38","slug":"critiques-ironies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/blog\/critiques-ironies\/","title":{"rendered":"Critiques & Ironies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Saed Haddad<\/strong> – Critiques & Ironies<\/em> (2019)
\n8 short pieces for piano<\/p>\n

Benjamin Kobler, piano
\nJanet Sinica, video
\nJan B\u00f6yng, editing
\nJulius Gass, sound direction<\/p>\n

1. Tombeau | 2. Intermezzo I | 3. Dark Clowning | 4. Intermezzo II | 5. Arabesque | 6. Elegy | 7. Perpetuum mobile | 8. Abyss<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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These short pieces were composed in response to the generous commission of the K\u00f6ln Philharmonie (K\u00f6lnMusik) in context of the Non-Beethoven-Project 2020. I was given a collection of phrases which were communicated to Beethoven; however, Beethoven\u2019s response to these phrases is unknown to us. I was asked to compose a piece inspired by Beethoven\u2019s possible answer or commentary without quoting neither imitating Beethoven\u2019s style(s).<\/p>\n

The two phrases told to Beethoven and which my piano pieces comment on:<\/p>\n

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  1. \u201eWir proben immer nur Ihre Quartetten; die Haydnschen u. Mozartschen nicht, sie gehen ohne Probe besser\u201c<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. \u201eDie Welt hat ihre Unschuld verloren und ohne Unschuld schafft und genie\u00dft man kein Kunstwerk. Die L\u00f6sung unserer Tage ist Kritik\u2026\u201c<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The first phrase touches on the satire and the ironic; irony can be found in many of Beethoven\u2019s compositions (as well as in my own). In fact, irony is a sort of contradiction: it is something which looks\/sounds serious, yet which has another face which laughs or smiles. Furthermore, in the 8 short piano pieces one can notice that a certain focus has been given to the idea of repetition with the intentional pun\/irony that \u2018r\u00e9p\u00e9tition\u2019 in French means \u2018Probe\u2019.<\/p>\n

    The second phrase criticizes the artistic scene and offers a possible solution, namely, \u201cKritik\u201d. I believe \u2013and I would imagine the same if Beethoven were alive- that our present musical scene needs urgently constructive criticism, because it is saturated with many wrong attitudes and conducts (for ex. some musicians are lazy\/careless with respect to rehearsals; when a performance is not a world-premiere, nobody invites composers to rehearsals -even when the musicians have never rehearsed with the composer in question-; most people prefer silence and political correctness (i.e. compromising in saying what they really think) over a critical polite enriching discussion). These wrong attitudes \u2013among others- impoverish our culture by depriving us from cultivating our human spirit\/intellect via sharing daring and challenging thoughts with each other.<\/p>\n

    Saed Haddad<\/em><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Benjamin Kobler plays Saed Haddad’s “Critiques & Ironies” – 8 short pieces for piano which were commissioned by the K\u00f6lner Philharmonie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-programmnote","category-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6439,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435\/revisions\/6439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}