Glocken Requiem XXI на Йоханес Валман като еманация на неговите интегрални принципи
Glocken Requiem ХХІ as an Emanation of the Integral Principles of Johannes Wallmann

Summary/Abstract: The paper follows the major “pre-modern” theoretical formulations, developed by German composer Johannes Wallmann in his book “Integrale Moderne – Vision und Philosophie der Zukunft”. On this ground and owing to a view of the composer’s oeuvre, the author presents one of his most popular works, Glocken Requiem XXI as a synthesizing musical implementation of these ideas. Quoting Jürgen Habermas, Reinhart Koselleck, Aleida Assmann, Philippe Ariès, the paper shows new interpretational lines as regards requiem immanence in the twentieth and twentieth-first century, when interest in non-canonical texts was piqued and a number of these were related to the idea of war. Requiems for wars show general trends, which, if followed, could shed light on the changes in the genre as a natural consequence of contemporary man’s changed attitudes towards death and thence towards life. At the same time a detailed analysis of the compositional techniques used by Wallmann, which enhance the effect of his conceptuality such as multilingualism, returning to early polychoral practices, campanology as semantics, continuity, determinacy is made.

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