Dear Johanna
Year Composed
2016
Duration
3:00
Instrumentation
For two instruments. Versions available:
B-Flat trumpet and alto saxophone (2016)
Clarinet and alto saxophone (arr. 2016)
B-Flat trumpet and English horn (arr. 2025)
C trumpet and English horn (arr. 2025)
Two alto saxophones (arr. 2016)
Price:
$20.00
Program Notes
Dear Johanna (2016, arr. 2025) was written for The Hartt School’s premier ensemble, Performance 20/20 and arranged for Nairam Simoes and Kristin Leitterman. Unique instrumentations such as this one were assigned to student composers with the task of relating each new piece to Beethoven’s Große Fugue. Dear Johanna meets this challenge by using a retrograde of Beethoven’s subject as the most prominent pitch material, while illustrating the real-life custody battle between Beethoven and his sister-in-law, Johanna, over her son.
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