The Alchemist, a true and faithful chronicling of the esoteric spiritual conferences and concomitant hermetic actions conducted by Her Majesty's Alchemist Dr. John Dee and one Edward Kelley invoking the Nine Hierarchies of Angelic Orders to visible appear (2011)

for string quartet

by John Zorn (1953)

general information

composition date
2011
duration
20min
publisher
Hips Road Edition

type

Chamber music (2 violins, viola, cello)

detailed formation

violin, second violin, viola, cello

observations

Présentation de l’éditeur : A trip through an Alchemist's laboratory. A seance invoking angelic orders. Virtuosic lyricism, numerology, prayers, canons, contrapuntal complexity, alchemical procedures (distillation, calcination, crystallization, sublimation, purification, rotation) and the ghost of a fugue.


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