
Clemens Gadenstätter: Comic Sense
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1/7Compositional Technique
COMIC SENSE is divided into three 'seasons' or 'Staffeln', which can also be performed individually.
Instruments
COMIC SENSE is a piano concerto that features both a concert grand piano and a versatile Midi keyboard, which can produce a variety of sounds including a 'Wild-West Piano'.
Composer Biography
Clemens Gadenstätter has been a professor of music theory and analysis at the Music University in Graz since 2004.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Composer Clemens Gadenstätter aims to create musical coherency through its reverse, attempting to build continuity from discontinuity.
Composition History
Clemens Gadenstätter's work COMIC SENSE was composed in 2002-2003.
Instruments
The second 'season' of COMIC SENSE introduces a cembalo, further intensifying the interplay of incoherent perspectives.
Composer Biography
Clemens Gadenstätter, born in 1966, studied composition with Erich Urbanner and Helmut Lachenmann.














