Predatory Dances

Featuring

Tobias Ringborg
Claes Gunnarsson
Per Lundberg
Francisca Skoogh
Susanna Andersson
Staffan Mårtensson

Albert Schnelzer

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Composer's Artistic Vision

For Schnelzer, music creation means seeking a true personal expression rather than striving for "modernistically correct" music.

Compositional Technique

Schnelzer uses a serial rhythmicality in his dances, where a basic pulse is constantly shifted and varied through changes of time signature, creating a disorienting effect.

Composer Biography

Albert Schnelzer, born in 1972, studied composition at the Malmö Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music in London, where he also trained as a conductor.

Compositional Technique

The elegiac character of Schnelzer's melodies is partly created by his use of scale types that connect to Klezmer or Balkan music.

Composition History

Schnelzer's international breakthrough came in 2004 when his work Predatory Dances, commissioned by Radio France, premiered at the Presence Festival in Paris.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Schnelzer's music is strongly physical and often narrative, characterized by energetic rhythm and expressive melody, drawing on dance and song as basic elements.