Philipp Henkel - Passacaglia on a Theme of Beethoven

The year 2020 is not just the year of Beethoven, but also of the famous German writer Friedrich Hölderlin and the Philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. In my homage I gave myself the challenge to use the theme of the "Grosse Fuge" by Beethoven and write a Passacaglia of it. Each Variations uses quotes from famous Beethoven pieces that I used to transcribe the Fugue. The instrumental writing is inspired by the dialectics between the left and right hand, which the instrumentalists need to reconcile and synthesize into a single voice line, which thus destabilizes the lyric.