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Dorothee Eberhardt

Kymata

for violin, horn and piano

“Kymata” (Greek for “waves”) was created in 2014/2015 as a tribute to the horn trio by Johannes Brahms. In four movements as a whole, each individual movement is based on its own rhythmic ostinato.

The composer owes the idea for these ostinati to Johann Sebastian Bach, who used rhythmic ostinati in some of his works, and to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who said: “Music is the hidden mathematical activity of the soul, which is not aware that it is calculating.” The ostinati are not perceived consciously, but only unconsciously and thus contribute to the perception of a movement or a section of a piece of music as a unit.

“Kymata” was premiered on March 3, 2018 by Trio Tricolor with Korbinian Altenberger, violin, Christoph Eß, horn, and Boris Kusnezow, piano, in Gilching.