Facetten

Conductors are personalities whose versatility enables them to involve large groups of people in the music - this applies to both musicians and audiences. They lead the music in a direction and have a strong mediating role - both internally and externally. Their personality is reflected not only in the skills they use in the job, but also in the different character traits needed to get volunteer musicians behind them. On the one hand, these skills consist of organisational ability and pedagogical dexterity. But on the other hand, musicians also need a certain musical independence, a certain ‘stubbornness’ for the music, to be able to develop individual interpretations. After all, without the creative input of conductors, music does not live. Conductors are the last link in the creative process. They think a composition through to the end. They are the composer's ally. In reality, they are often also composers. Composers who try to give a personal interpretation to the music. Conductors are characterised by qualities such as straightforwardness and consistency, but also humour and empathy.

One person who possesses all these skills and qualities is Klaus Duftschmid. Duftschmid has been the conductor of the “Stadtmusik Vöcklabruck” for many years and has, like no other, defined the musical signature of the “Stadtmusik” in recent decades. The composition is an attempt to musically describe the different facets - including the different faces of the conductor. On the one hand a certain straightforwardness, on the other a tendency toward sociability. On the one hand the way he is individual and creative - perhaps even withdrawn - but on the other hand a person who needs the group to be complete.

The theme of the composition is emphasized in the first bars with a majestic character, before it emerges in mysterious, dictating, dance-like and fugue-like variations. The multifaceted “I” must be expressed in the lyrical section.