• Year of composition: 2000
  • Work category: Orchestral works in one movement
  • Dedication: Mattias Svensson, Gotland School of Composition
  • First performed: 24 November 2000, Young Composers 2000, Karl-Birger Blomdahlsalen, Växjö Konserthus. Musica Vitae, conductor Michael Bartosch.
  • Duration: 11 min

Instrumentation

5 violin I, 4 violin II, 3 viola, 2 cello, 1 double bass

Location for score and part material

Gehrmans Musikförlag

Description of work

One-movement work for fifteen solo strings, unfolding from silence in shifting directions and sound fields.

Links

https://www.benjaminstaern.se/?page_id=3989


Work comment

Muramaris takes its inspiration from the artist's residence outside Visby. Its fragile architecture, sculptures and shifting light become a surreal sound world, unfolding from silence in different directions.

Muramaris, outside Visby