Hommage à Stravinsky

Ole Schmidt

This article is a stub. If you can help add information to it,
please join the WRP and visit the FAQ (left sidebar) for information.

General Info

Year: 1985
Duration: c. 8:45
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Editions Peters
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - Rental

Movements

1. Quarter Note = 114 – 1:45
2. Largo – Allegro – Largo – Allegro – 3:40
3. Quarter Note = 132 – 3:20

Instrumentation

Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
E-flat Horn or Alto I-II-III-IV
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II

(percussion detail desired)

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Ole Schmidt's Hommage à Stravinsky became a kind of Name That Tune, with references to L'Histoire du Soldat' and Le Sacre du Printemps plus a little Meistersinger. There were no strings in this good-natured, tightly written piece.

- Program Note from New York Times

Ole Schmidt is one of Denmark's leading composers and conductors; his Hommage à Stravinsky was written in early 1985 and has already been broadcast and performed many times in Denmark. The work is a humorous and affectionate tribute to the music of possibly the most eclectic of composers, lgor Stravinsky, and this homage reflects all of the different facets of his output. Within the three short movements there are obvious references to works as disparate as the Mendelssohn Wedding March and Rhapsody in Blue, entwined with well-known material from all of Stravinsky's major works, as well as a more subtle employment of favorite motifs and rhythmic patterns. But much more significant than this is the striking way in which Schmidt has captured the very essence of Stravinsky's various styles in his instrumentation, harmonic and rhythmic procedures and in the overall construction of the work. One constantly feels that Stravinsky might well have produced exactly this piece if he had been asked for a witty potpourri of past masterpieces.

- Program Note by Tim Reynish

Media

Audio CD: Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces (Ole Kristian Ruud, conductor)

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Penn.) Wind Ensemble (George Vosburgh, conductor) - 15 October 2022
Boston (Mass.) Conservatory Wind Ensemble (Eric Hewitt, conductor) – 24 February 2017
Lynn Conservatory of Music (Boca Raton, Fla.) Wind Ensemble (Kenneth Amis, conductor)– 15 January 2016
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Wind Ensemble (Carolyn Barber, conductor) – 8 October 2014

Works for Winds by This Composer

Resources

Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "Ole Schmidt." Accessed 31 January 2017
Holland, Bernard. "Concert: Concordia." New York Times, 8 June 1986.
"HOMMAGE A STRAVINSKY for Orchestral Winds by Ole Schmidt (1928-2010)." WASBE. Web. (Featured as WASBE’s Composition of the Week, 23 November 2020). Accessed 14 January 2023
Schmidt, O. (1985). Hommage a Stravinsky, 1985 : For Symphonie Winds, Timpani and 3 Perc. [score]. Kbh.
"4 Works to Remember in 2015." Tim Reynish Accessed 31 January 2017