Amore Pedestre

for Symphony Orchestra

2010

6’30”

DESCRIPTION  

Amore Pedestre was composed for the silent film Amore Pedestre (1914), directed by Marcel Fabre (aka Fernandez Perez).

The story of the meeting and falling in love of a man and a woman. The story is told by showing the characters from below the knees only. A man in smart shoes prepares to go out. His maid gives him a coat, he dusts off his shoes and leaves. As he leaves the building, an elegant woman drops her purse. He returns it to her and follows her home…

INSTRUMENTATION

2222 / 4331 / timp* + 2 perc** / hp / pno-cel / strings

*also triangle and cymbal on timp

**percussion instruments  

percussion 1: marimba – vibra (bowed) – whip – Tam Tam

percussion 2: glockenspiel – sizzle cymbal – 5 temple blocks – snare drum – 

suspended cymbal – 5 toms

COMMISSION

Commissioned by the Belgian National Orchestra

PREMIERE

World premiere by the Belgian National Orchestra, conducted by Dirk Brossé on February 4, 2010, at BOZAR Brussels

PUBLISHER

Dirk Brossé 

AVAILABLE SCORES

Available on a rental base

REATED RECORDINGS

Brussels Philharmonic plays Dirk Brossé / A Journey from Philly to Utopia

Antarctic Records 2020 AR 019

CATEGORIES 

Works for Orchestra / Chamber Orchestra  

RELATED FILM

 

Amore Pedestre (1914), directed by Marcel Fabre (aka Fernandez Perez)

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