Tenebroso
in series: Antik
2025
db(4)
00:21:20
Tenebrism, from Italian tenebroso (‘dark, gloomy, mysterious’), also occasionally called dramatic illumination, is a style of painting using especially pronounced chiaroscuro, where there are violent contrasts of light and dark, and where darkness becomes a dominating feature of the image.
In musical analogies to this technique, this piece reworks the first 32 bars of the second movement, Andante con Moto (“Death and the Maiden”) in Franz Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810, using computer-assisted composition.