Dedicated to Pierre Dutot and David Guerrier

Created on July 5, 2005 by David Guerrier during the Franco-European Trumpet Symposium organized by Pierre Dutot in Bordeaux.

Duration : approx. 8'. Editions Francois Dhalmann

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«  Traveling means giving yourself multiple possibilities of returns and departures »

The Baroque style - defined as the other side of classicism - is characterized by a taste for pathos, a structured composition based on a system of antithesis, analogy, symmetry and dissymmetry, the use of striking images.

The baroque wants to astonish, to touch the senses, to dazzle and achieves it by effects of movement and luminous contrasts, of tense and thwarted forms until suggesting the bursting in a scintillating and cheerful dynamics translating the exaltation by the ornamental profusion.

A fantasy - free form if ever there was one - is not synonymous with futility or superficiality ; on the contrary, we have known for a long time that the deepest things in existence are often expressed with a lightness that makes reality bearable.

This fantasy fits that mood perfectly ; indeed, like all my works for solo instruments, the instrumentalist must be constantly on the alert in order to play and to play himself :

• of the constant sudden outpouring of ideas, like certain works of raw art

• of the multitude of motifs of opposing characters that make up this work, unstable like a mobile in perpetual motion where the return of the motifs are as many changes of perspective.

• multiple sound possibilities of the instrument as well as the great virtuosity and precision of execution that this writing implies extreme opposition. thus underlining the particularity of this instrument.

This is how the form of this kind of rondo is characterized, as if life gave us the possibility of being unceasingly unrolled, always in new more or less distant directions, after each of our returns.

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Although written to highlight the soft and warm sound of the flugelhorn, it is still possible to play this work on the cornet or possibly on the Bb trumpet.

In an educational setting, a student can possibly play on a trumpet in C.