"Hay que caminar" soñando
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| "Hay que caminar" soñando KOE 20A | |
|---|---|
| by Luigi Nono | |
| Composed | 2 March 1989: Berlin, Germany |
| Performed | 14 October 1989: Berlin |
| Published | 1989: |
| Movements | 3 |
| Scoring | Two violins |
"Hay que caminar" soñando (Spanish: "We must walk" dreaming) is the last composition by avant-garde composer Luigi Nono, composed one year before dying at the age of 66. Scored for two violins, it was premiered during Nono's lifetime.
Commissioned by the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, "Hay que caminar" was born out of expanded material from Nono's previous work, La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura, and was the fourth and last piece to bear a title related to the "Caminantes", after Caminantes... Ayacucho, No hay caminos, hay que caminar... Andrei Tarkovsky, and La lontananza.[1] This is in reference to a quote by Spanish author Antonio Machado ("Caminante, no hay caminos, hay que caminar" — Traveller, there are no ways, but we must go), which he saw in Toledo, and faintly represents his political commitment and his desire for social justice.[1] The original title also bears an additional inscription: "KOE 20 A", which refers to the house the piece was composed in — Königstraße 20a, in Berlin.[2] The piece was finished on March 2, 1989, and was dedicated "A Tatiana e Gidon" (To Tatiana [Grindenko] and Gidon [Kremer]). The piece was premiered at the Sala Grande del Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi, in Milan, on October 14, 1989, by violinists Irvine Arditti and David Alberman, and was published later that year by Casa Ricordi.[2]
