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First name: Rune
Last name: Glerup
Dates: 1981
Category: Quartet
Nationality: Danish
Opus name: Piano Quartet (2013)
Publisher: Edition S
Peculiarities: http://www.edition-s.dk/music/rune-glerup/piano-quartet http://www.tfront.com/p-350383-piano-quartet-for-violin-viola-cello-and-piano-2013.aspx#350383
Information: (composer website: http://www.runeglerup.dk/) The composer Rune Glerup (b. 1981) goes in search of strange, almost absurd situations in music. “There is always something incredibly freeing and beautiful with something that goes really wrong; when the musical situation tips over or short-circuits”, says the composer. Among the absurd, at times almost violent situations, a special kind of beauty appears once in a while. The tension that arises between e.g. violent and tender forms of expression, is in Glerup’s music a kind of conflict filled space. It is precisely not movement from the one extreme to the other, but rather a kind of uncontrolled energy, which can move in all directions. In spite of Glerup’s music having changed through the years, there is a recognisable element in all his works, which he calls “the same kind of energy, which simply changes appearance once in a while”. In 2008, with the trio objets/décalages, Glerup unfolded the idea of “musical objects” thoroughly. He had previously made moves in this direction with, inter alia, the work La Rose pulvérisée, but without the same degree of consequence. Compositionally it meant that he more or less did away with descriptive elements, in particular dynamic forms, in favour of musical objects. Objects are almost physical things in themselves: a phrase that doesn’t change, a section that is constant and doesn’t gradually become something else. When first he has created his objects, he can compose with them as he wishes. For Glerup the point with musical objects is to underline something concrete in the music. He would like to present music as something purely physical that isn’t a reference carrier for a narrative for example. For Glerup music is not a phenomenon that expresses something which can also be said in other ways. Music is a phenomenon that expresses something which only can be said through music. “My work with musical objects has been an almost utopian attempt to get music to approach visual art, where the physical aspect is very present and which, through the years, has been a strong source of inspiration”, Glerup explains.