Waldram Hollfelder (1924-2017): Music for solo flute (1962) with score, played on the clarinet

Waldram Hollfelder was a rather conservatively modern pupil of Darmstadt mastermind Wolfgang Fortner. As a result, also his dodecaphonic compositions always keep in touch with Hindemith tonality, and he would rather speak of “modes“ than of “series“ (just like Messiaen did with his “Mode de valeurs et d’intensités“). This work, a five-part suite for solo flute, which I transposed down a seventh (notated as a sixth) for the B-flat clarinet, contrasts and combines tonal with dodecaphonically atonal passages. Musik für Flöte solo (1962) 1. Bewegt! (Moving forward!) 0:00 2. Langsam (Slow) 1:37 3. Alla marcia 4:42 4. Verhalten! (Restrained!) 5:43 5. Lebhaft! (Vivid!) 7:55 based on the manuscript in Nuremberg’s Public Library (Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg) arranged and played by myself on the clarinet in 2022 thumbnail image: Stockweiher in Nuremberg, the city where Hollfelder spent most o