3(III=picc).3(III=corA).3(III=bcl).3(III=dbn)-4.3.3.2(II=dbtuba)-timp.perc(4):vib/2tam-t/SD/BD/stirringD/ant.cyms;glsp/t.bells/4cyms/5bongos/ant.cyms/SD;xyl/5tom-t/t.bells/BD/tgl/2tam-t/SD;5tom-t/2cyms/plate.bells/Javanese.nipple.gongs/BD/conga/5timp/SD/ant.cyms/2tam-t-hp-pft-cel-elec.org-str(14.12.10.8.6five-stringed db)
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The title of the 2009 work “...ZURÜCKNEHMEN...” Remembrance for large orchestra refers to a specific passage from Thomas Mann's novel Doctor Faustus. When his beloved nephew Nepomuk dies, the fictional composer Adrian Leverkühn, who has bought his creative power in a devil's pact with the prohibition of love and his deadline (time), is plunged into a severe crisis. The short dialog quoted here from Mann's “Doctor Faustus” reads: "‘I have found,’ said Adrian, 'it shall not be. 'What, Adrian, shall not be?‘ 'The good and noble,’ he answered me, 'what is called the human, though it is good and noble. What men have fought for, what they have stormed castles for, and what the fulfilled have jubilantly proclaimed, that shall not be. It will be taken back. I want to take it back. 'I don't quite understand you, dear. What do you want to take back?‘ 'The Ninth Symphony,’ he replied. And then nothing more came, just as I waited."