Erste Symphonie " Die Farben des Lebens"

Jean-François Michel 1957*

First Symphony "The colors of life"

For Wind Band

Duration ca. 24'
Grade 6
Item-No.   SWM01
This work is a hymn about life.
Life is moody, colorful …. and gives us a passionate adventure.
The work consists of three parts that follow one another.

Sätze:

  1. chapter:

    A lullaby leads us into childhood. The themes, which are developed later, appear in different places.

    Brass and drums break this idyllic situation and bring dramatic colours. The energetic and heroic main theme of this movement gives us the pleasure of the a dventure until we can be carried away by the Accelerando at the end.

  2. chapter: The memory, the melancholy:
    A gentle melody that slowly but steadily increases dramatically and becomes a memory of the people who have left us and lead us to self-experienced suffering. We are led to our inner peace thanks to this memory.

  3. chapter:

    The joy, the hope:
    The focus is on the beauty of nature, the encounters between people, whose energy flows and whose knowledge is constantly being exchanged with one another. Our time allows us to discover world culture and enriches our existence.
    I do not finish the work without a tribute to the music, which lends me the necessary colours around me. I evoke BACH, the greatest of all composers.

full score

piccolo
flute 1,2
oboe 1,2
english horn
bassoon 1,2
contrabassoon
clarinet Bb 1
clarinet Bb 2
clarinet Bb 3
alto clarinet Eb
bass clarinet
contrabass clarinet Bb
alto saxophone 1,2
tenor saxophone 1,2
baritone saxophone

harp

trumpet Bb 1
trumpet Bb 2,3
cornet Bb 1,2
horn F 1,2
horn F 3,4
trombone 1,2
trombone 3
euphonium
tuba
violoncello
string bass

timpani
mallets (glockenspiel, vibraphone, xylophone, chimes, marimbaphone)
percussion 1 (tam-tam, crash cymbals, chimes, glockenspiel, susp. cymbal, tenor drum, xylophone, triangle
percussion 2 (stand tom, crash cymbals, susp. cymbal, vibraphone, triangle, tam-tam, glockenspiel, chimes, windchimes)
percussion 3 (bass drum, crash cymbals, susp. cymbal, chimes, triangle, windchimes, tenor drum, snare drum)

Additional parts for certain countries

trombone Bb 1,2
trombone Bb 3,4
euphonium Bb
tuba Eb
tuba Bb

First Symphony
"The colors of life"