Description

Valse Vanitas is a forming part of the quintet Dance Scenes by Lauri Toivio. The quintet was premiered at the Mänttä Music Festival in 2000 excluding Valse Vanitas, which remained incomplete at the time.

Vanity is a frequently used symbolic theme in visual arts, illustrating the transitory nature of life, the vanity of enjoyments and the perpentual presence of death..

Instrumentation

fl, cl, vln, vlc, pno

Category

Chamber Works

Premiere

Uusinta Ensemble (Malla Vivolin, flute, Mikko Raasakka, clarinet, Aleksi Kotila, violin, Markus Hohti, violoncello & Fanny Söderström, piano), August 28, 2020, Tampere Biennale 2.0 @ Ung Nordisk Musik Festival, Tampere, Finland;

Commisioned by / dedications

Commissioned by Tampere Biennale Festival

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Archive number

MF34103

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