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''Amour'' is a cycle of five pieces for clarinet by Karlheinz Stockhausen, composed in 1974–76. The composer thought of each piece as a gift for a close friend. The cycle is given the number 44 in Stockhausen's catalogue of works. ==History== The first piece of the cycle was composed in 1974 while Stockhausen was vacationing in Senegal, at N'Gor, a beach resort near Dakar; the rest were composed during a week in December 1976, in Kürten, Germany, as Christmas gifts for family members and close associates . * ''Sei wieder fröhlich'' ("Cheer up", 12 December 1974) :Composed for clarinetist Suzee (Suzanne) Stephens, who worked with Stockhausen on a number of projects, including ''Herbstmusik'' (1974), ''Harlekin'' (1975), ''In Freundschaft'' (1977), ''Traum-Formel'' (1981), and others. This is a short (the score indicates approximate playing time of 1'30"), melodic work. * ''Dein Engel wacht über Dir'' ("Your angel is watching over you", 11 December 1976) :Composed for Mary Bauermeister, the composer's second wife. This piece was conceived by Stockhausen as a dialogue between two voices: one low and soft, the other loud, two octaves higher. The voices unite into a single entity, which is then transformed several times . * ''Die Schmetterlinge spielen'' ("Butterflies are playing", 16 December 1976) :Composed for Jaynee Stephens, Suzanne's younger sister. This is a character piece in which the butterflies are represented by short, fast two-note motifs. One of the butterflies has, in the composer's words, "a beat of wide intervals in triplets", and the other's wings move in "fast duplets of small intervals" . * ''Ein Vöglein singt an Deinem Fenster'' ("A little bird is singing at your window", 12 December 1976) :Composed for Suzanne Stephens. This also is a character piece, which begins with a "bird" melody—fast, wide intervals, trills—which gradually transforms into a calmer, unadorned "human" melody . * ''Vier Sterne weisen Dir den Weg'' ("Four stars show you the way", 13 December 1976) :Composed for Doris Stockhausen-Andreae, the composer's first wife. The title refers to the four children Doris and Karlheinz had: Suja, Christel, Markus, and Majella. There are, accordingly, four related, four-note formulas in the piece, which are gradually transformed in various ways . ''Amour'' was first performed publicly on 9 January 1978, in Stuttgart, by Suzanne Stephens. In 1981 Stockhausen created a flute version of the cycle, which was followed by a cello arrangement of ''Vier Sterne weisen Dir den Weg'' in 1998, and a saxophone version of the entire cycle, created in 2003. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amour (Stockhausen)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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