Bernd Alois Zimmermann. Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu (1966)

Con este ballet noir, Zimmermann lleva el arte del collage a su máximo nivel. Sobre danzas de los siglos XVI y XVII se intercalan citas de autores como Johann Strauss padre, Moussorgski, Wagner, Berlioz, Bach, Honegger, Beethoven, Stockhausen, Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, Stravinsky, Henze, Dallapiccola y el propio Zimmermann. El resultado es sarcástico, burlón, a veces hasta cacofónico, como corresponde a la música de un banquete en la corte del rey Ubu. 

El vídeo que propongo es muy interesante porque va mostrando las citas que se utilizan en cada una de las partes de la obra.

 

Dijo Zimmermann: 

"The piece is a 'ballet noir' which is performed at a banquet at the Court of Ubu. The Academy of the country in which the piece set is commanded to attend the banquet - and at the end in the 'Marche du decervellage' is dispatched through the trap door: symbolic of the fate of a liberal academy under the reign of a usurper. In order to show up our absolutely disproportionate intellectual and cultural situation, musical collages of the most amusing and hardest tone are used; the piece is pure collage, based on dances of the 16th and 17th centuries, interspersed with quotations from earlier and contemporary composers. A farce which is seemingly merry, fat and greedy like Ubu himself: apparently an enormous prank, but for those who are able to hear beyond this it is a warning allegory, macabre and amusing at the same time."

Avant Garde Proyect

La obra se compone de las siguientes partes:

1. Entrée de l'Academie - Ubu Roi, Capitaine Bordure et ses partisans - Couplet
2. Mère Ubu et ses Gardes - Couplet
3. Pile, Cotice et l'ours - Couplet
4. Le Cheval a Phynances et les larbins de Phynances - Couplet
5. Pavane de Pissembock et Pissedoux - Couplet
6. Berceuse des petits financiers qui ne peuvent pas s'endomir - Couplet
7. Marche du décervellage