Quinteto para oboé e quarteto de cordas WoO 17: introdução a uma obra da juventude de Ernst Widmer

Abstract

The present work has as its object of research the Quintet for oboe and string quartet WoO 17 (Quinett für Streichquartett und Oboe), the first work for oboe by the Swiss-Brazilian composer Ernst Widmer (1927-1990). Composed in Switzerland in 1951, it belongs to Widmer’s period of compositional youth and is among the works without an opus number in his collection, being cataloged in 2008 by Willy Brüschweiler as WoO (Werke ohne Opuszhal) (BRÜSCHVEILER, 2008, p. 67). The Quintet WoO 17 is one of the five audiocomplements of a radio series called Frühvollendete, commissioned and premiered by Radio DRS of Switzerland between 1950 and 1951. The Quintet WoO 17 makes reference to the comic play Leonce and Lena of 1836 by German Georg Büchner (1813-1837). Composed of six movements, this chamber work also has in its fifth movement an ad libitum line for voice, in which Widmer introduces the text of the piece's Tanz Lied. This research aims to disseminate, introduce and insert the Quintet WoO 17 into the chamber music repertoire for oboe and strings. For this, an introductory descriptive analysis of the movements will be carried out, observing their structure, compositional elements, influences and interrelationships, and a later work by Widmer that has thematic relationships with the Quintet WoO 17 will be presented, the edited score of the works. It is also expected that this research will contribute to the dissemination of a compositional phase of Ernst Widmer still little explored.