Schneider – 3 Nocturnes For Guitar (Schott Music)

Nocturnes have a long tradition – from the notturni by Mozart and Haydn via the nocturnes of the Romantic era to Chopin who elevated the genre to fascinating character piece: He created ambivalently shining gems in an unreal world of human nature which were as close to the extremely sublime as to a demonic abyss. Enjott Schneider’s ‘3 Nocturnes’ the core of each of which is characterized by a Latin motto stand in this tradition. Cicero’s ‘Somnus est imago mortus’ sees sleep as a resemblance of death. ‘Die Zeit eilt weg die Liebe aber bleibt’ [Time passes but love remains] explores the ambivalence between that what is hurrying and that what stays eternally. Ovid’s ‘Der Tropfen hhlt den Stein nicht durch Kraft sondern durch stetes Fallen’ [The drop hollows the stone not by force but by constant dripping] has its counterpart in a minimalist motif which has a lasting influence on the listener through its constant sounding.

3 Nocturnes

Composer: Enjott Schneider
Publisher: Schott Music
Instrument: Guitar
Format: Guitar Solo
Pages: 16