Windhagauer, Horst Rudolf

Windhagauer, Horst Rudolf

Marcia grave e con sentimento for four Violoncelli 2002/WN 6

Horst Rudolf Windhagauer

Horst Rudolf Windhagauer was born in 1955 at Gmunden/Austria and grew up in Nuremberg, a city in nothern Bavaria. Since 1998 he lives with his family in Bamberg.
He studied Violoncello, piano and composition in Nuremberg and Wuerzburg with Claus Reichardt and Prof. Julius Berger. He was a member of several ensembles for chamber music, so the „Trio elegiáque“, the „Arpa Trio“ and the „Cello quartet of Nuremberg“.
Since 1998 he was the leader of the cellist group at the „Chamber orchestra of Bamberg“.
In 2016 he created the „Quartetto cellistico Bamberg“. For this ensemble he wrote and adapted a number of pieces.
Several works for chambermusic he wrote during the years of 2012 until 2017 for the international wellknown ensemble the „Giocoso Quartett“.
Since 1988 he his a teacher for cello at the Highschool for music in Erlangen.
As a student for composition with Gottfried Muller, who was an expert for the music of Bach, he developed as a composer – during many years – a very personal style of music, which lies between his baroque idols, a moderate modern style and the late Richard Strauss.

Horst Rudolf Windhagauer – Marcia grave e con sentimento

Dieses Werk ist gänzlich im barock/klassischen Stil gehalten. Über wuchtigen Quinten entwickelt sich das Thema, welches das Cello I als solistische Stimme bis in die Daumenlagen führt und an einen düsteren Marche funébre gemahnt.
Das dunkle c-Moll führt im Mittelteil in eine im hellen C-Dur gehaltene Passacaglia. Über der ostinaten Harmoniefolge entwickeln sich die Variationen mit verschiedenen Spieltechniken im nunmehr kompakten vierstimmigen Satz.
Einer dreiteiligen a-b-a-Form folgend erscheint dann der in c-Moll gehaltene Marcia grave als Schluss des Werkes.