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12/8/2000

Music in European Gardens

Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve

International composition competition 2000. The competition awards prizes for compositions which in a musically artistic fashion are allied to a European garden of high repute. The competition has the aim of blending the art of garden design and the music to make a whole work and so to create a lasting cultural heritage.

The concept of the competition came about through an international exhibition which took place in Lisbon in 1993. At that time the promoter was the European Commission, General Directory X (Information, Communication, Culture, Audio-Visual Media, Cultural Action) in Brussels. This exhibition presented important European gardens and memorial parks. The fact that not only were the internationally outstanding historical baroque parks in the town of Kleve included in this exhibition but were also chosen to be the motif for the exhibition poster and to appear on the cover page of the exhibition catalogue drew attention to a further focal point in this particular cultural sphere. The idea was born to take up in Kleve the opportunity indicated by Brussels and Lisbon and to develop it further.

The idea of the competition is to characterise musically selected European parks or gardens; so to say "to set into the scene", an idea which is not without example in the history of music.

The initial event, in a regular series of biennial competitions, will in the year 2000 have as its subject the historical parks in the town of Kleve. Which garden or park is to be the subject for the following competition will be made known in good time. Although the park or garden will be different for each competition the organisational responsibility for the competition will remain in Kleve.

Performances
The prize winners' concert will take place on 13th August 2000 in the open air in the grounds of the historical parks of the town of Kleve.

The composers are under the obligation to provide, or to have provided through their publishers, the number of correct and performable orchestral and, where applicable, choral scores together with any other directions needed for the performance of their works.

All première performance rights to the prize winning compositions and a copy of the orchestral and choral scores etc. are to be assigned to the competition organisers.

Where possible, but not obligatorily, the works will be performed at the closing concerts. In the case of a work that proves too costly to perform the concert organisers reserve the right to postpone the performance of the work.

In case of doubt in the interpretation and application of the rules and conditions governing the competition the original German text shall prevail.

Organising Committee:
Artistic Director: Boguslaw Jan Strobel - (Concert Pianist)
Prof. Dr Walter Gieseler - Composer
Drs. Guido de Werd - Art Historian
OStR.i.R. Wilhelm Diedenhofen - Garden Historian

Management: Heinz Scholten - AG "Musik und Kunst in europäische Gärten - (Study group "Music and Art in European Gardens" in the Klevischen Heimat- und Verkehrsverein e.V.).

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