Valentina Scheldhofen Ciardelli tells us more about Mama Erde, her composition inspired by Mothe Earth. Find out more in the video. 🎼
READ the transcription of Valentina’s words in the video:
The symphonic piece I wrote for the project is called Mama Erde.
It’s in German, in a somewhat childlike German because it literally means “Mother Earth.”
I wrote it inspired by the topic of the project, which is the joy of living — not in a religious sense, but in a purely secular way, the joy of human existence.
This symphonic piece has something that is born and grows from the earth, something tangible, and I wanted to give the music precisely this kind of texture. I know it might seem strange to think about texture in relation to sound, but I am a synesthetic artist, so I often make visual or sensory references in music that have nothing to do with sound itself but rather with other senses.
Mama Erde introduces the performance, followed by four chamber pieces for quartet. It contains a great deal of thematic material that I later developed in the chamber quartet for the soloists of Toscanini Orchestra.