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The Last Days of Immanuel Kant
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The Last Days of Immanuel Kant by Gavin Bryars SSAATTBB - Sheet Music

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The Last Days of Immanuel Kant Bryars: The Last Days of Immanuel Kant for SSAATTBB a cappella by Gavin Bryars SSAATTBB - Sheet Music

By Gavin Bryars
SSAATTBB a cappella Mixed Choir

SKU: HL.49047850

Bryars: The Last Days of Immanuel Kant for SSAATTBB a cappella. Composed by Gavin Bryars. Choral Large Works. Choral, Classical. Softcover. Schott Music #ED14150. Published by Schott Music (HL.49047850).

UPC: 842819125884. 8.25x11.75x0.281 inches.

This large-scale choral work for 24 voices sets passages from Thomas de Quincey�s essay, an extraordinary text whose authorship is ambiguous, but which has, for me, something of the austerity and absurdity of Samuel Beckett. I once planned to make this into an opera but, instead, it has become a narrative cantata, describing the great philosopher�s gradual descent into senility and his eventual passing. It shows his increasingly incongruous obsessions and odd behaviour, contrasting this with the greatness of his mind. It is the third work I have written for the virtuoso Philadelphia-based choir The Crossing, following The Fifth Century (2014) and A Native Hill (2018-19). Gavin Bryars.