A personal request from Timothy Alexandre Wallace ...
Earlier this year, I discovered this composition contest in Munich, Germany. I have now formally entered the contest in order to promote my original compositions. Listed below are the details of the contest or you can click on the button above to go directly to the website.
I ask your support by going to the website and click onto EVALUATION, where you will see all 120 contestants.
Also you can OPEN or LISTEN to each of the contestants' music.
When you click onto to OPEN, you can then vote on the composition(s) of your choice.
This is a very exciting opportunity for me both personally and professionally. Your support is greatly appreciated.
The Diabelli Contest
There are numerous composers worldwide, who continue mostly out of pure, creative idealism. Only a select few have the privilege and enjoyment of their music being performed by others, let alone, achieve recognition . This is not necessarily due to differences in talents or abilities, but often the fact that composers are unable to market themselves.
This contest offers a competition, which provides a general public, for composers from all walks of life . A competition only makes sense if a relatively good and comprehensible comparability exist. Therefore, each participating composer will be given the task to create a composition based on a common theme. The theme can be a melody , a rhythm, but also a pictorial or contemporary art.
The Diabelli theme for 2015/16: The Wessobrunn Prayer
The Wessobrunn Prayer has been selected as the theme for this year's competition and is among the earliest poetic works in Old High German. It is named after the repository in which the parchment was discovered, the Wessobrunn monastery. The poem consists of an original part in which the story of creation is addressed and an added part in which is prayed for God's mercy.
The prayer fascinated Carl Orff to such a great extent that he had it put to music. He consciously based it only on the first part. Although the story of creation in the first part was Christian inspired, it is perceived similarly in other world religions such as Islam, Hinduism and Judaism. The general validity of the prayer was important to Carl Orff. Of prime importance to him was not only what was represented in the sheet music but the spiritual world behind it.
The composer has a free choice with regard to the melody and harmonization.
History
In 1819, the Viennese music publisher, editor and composer Anton Diabelli asked every renowned Austrian composer and several significant non-Austrians, to write a variation on a "patriotic" waltz for his publication Patriotic Association of Artists. A total of 51 composers and pianists responded with variations, including Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Moritz Graf von Dietrich Stein, Heinrich Eduard Josef Baron von Lannoy, Baron Ignaz Franz von Mosel, Carl Czerny, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Ignaz Moscheles, and eight-year-old Franz Liszt.
The idea from Anton Diabelli is brilliant: The variations are all based on a pre-determined common waltz and the specified instrumentation, in this case, the piano. The variations provided are actually very different in character and yet comparable. The result was a relatively high charm for the audience.
This is the foundation for our competition. Hence, the project is appropriately named "Diabelli Contest". Whereas, the objective of the competition is not that of Diabelli, in the editing of his work and the publication of the variations, but in the online publication and exposure to the general public, for as many composers and their works as possible.
There are numerous composers worldwide, who continue mostly out of pure, creative idealism. Only a select few have the privilege and enjoyment of their music being performed by others, let alone, achieve recognition . This is not necessarily due to differences in talents or abilities, but often the fact that composers are unable to market themselves.
This contest offers a competition, which provides a general public, for composers from all walks of life . A competition only makes sense if a relatively good and comprehensible comparability exist. Therefore, each participating composer will be given the task to create a composition based on a common theme. The theme can be a melody , a rhythm, but also a pictorial or contemporary art.
The Diabelli theme for 2015/16: The Wessobrunn Prayer
The Wessobrunn Prayer has been selected as the theme for this year's competition and is among the earliest poetic works in Old High German. It is named after the repository in which the parchment was discovered, the Wessobrunn monastery. The poem consists of an original part in which the story of creation is addressed and an added part in which is prayed for God's mercy.
The prayer fascinated Carl Orff to such a great extent that he had it put to music. He consciously based it only on the first part. Although the story of creation in the first part was Christian inspired, it is perceived similarly in other world religions such as Islam, Hinduism and Judaism. The general validity of the prayer was important to Carl Orff. Of prime importance to him was not only what was represented in the sheet music but the spiritual world behind it.
The composer has a free choice with regard to the melody and harmonization.
History
In 1819, the Viennese music publisher, editor and composer Anton Diabelli asked every renowned Austrian composer and several significant non-Austrians, to write a variation on a "patriotic" waltz for his publication Patriotic Association of Artists. A total of 51 composers and pianists responded with variations, including Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Moritz Graf von Dietrich Stein, Heinrich Eduard Josef Baron von Lannoy, Baron Ignaz Franz von Mosel, Carl Czerny, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Ignaz Moscheles, and eight-year-old Franz Liszt.
The idea from Anton Diabelli is brilliant: The variations are all based on a pre-determined common waltz and the specified instrumentation, in this case, the piano. The variations provided are actually very different in character and yet comparable. The result was a relatively high charm for the audience.
This is the foundation for our competition. Hence, the project is appropriately named "Diabelli Contest". Whereas, the objective of the competition is not that of Diabelli, in the editing of his work and the publication of the variations, but in the online publication and exposure to the general public, for as many composers and their works as possible.
