Symphony I (Picqueur)

Bart Picqueur

Bart Picqueur

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Subtitle: Krka

General Info

Year: 2017
Duration: c. 50:00
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Minor Scale Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - €500.00; (digital) - €375.00   |   Score Only (print) - €150.00

Movements

1. Craftsmanship
2. Love
3. Humour
4. Unity

Instrumentation

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Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Although every movement has a suggestive title, evoking a skill of the commissioning band, the piece is completely non-programmatic. Built in a solid classical construction, it uses clear structures and harmonies, yet idiomatically rather modern, without searching for extra-musical effects.

This symphony got its premiere on May 27 2017 in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, by Pihalni Orkestr KRKA, conducted by Matevz Novak. It is dedicated to friend Matevz Novak

- Program Note by composer

A shorter 23-minute version titled Sinfonietta Nr1, that cares to keep the structure and the form balanced, was the compulsory piece in the highest category of the Certamen Internacional de Bandas de Valencia, in 2018.

- Program Note by WASBE

Media

None discovered thus far.

State Ratings

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Performances

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• Krka Wind Orchestra (Novo Mesto, Slovenia) (Matevž Novak, conductor) – 27 May 2017 *Premiere Performance*

Works for Winds by This Composer

• Danzas del Inferno (2008)
• De Bello Gallico (2007)
• Drunken Sailor (2006)
• Froghitters’ Fantasy, A (2005)
• Jeu de Cartes (2013)
• Krka. See: Symphony No. 1
• Mutations (2017)
• Oh Happy Day (2004)
• Semper Plus Ultra (2013)
• Sinfonietta No. 1 (2018)
• Symphony No. 0 (2006)
• Symphony No. 1 (2017)

Resources

• Picqueur, B. ([2017]. Symphony No. 1 Krka: For Wind Orchesta [score]. Minor Scale Music: Zele, Belgium.
• "SYMPHONY Nr 1 “KRKA” by Bart Picqueur (Belgium)." WASBE. Web. (Featured as WASBE’s Composition of the Week, 13 July 2020). Accessed 15 January 2023
• "Symphony No. 1 KRKA." The Wind Band Symphony Archive. Web. Accessed 15 January 2023