Teppo Hauta-aho: Elegy-Fantasy in Memory of David Walter for double bass quartet

About the Composition Completed on 25 November 2003 and revised in April 2004, 'Elegy-Fantasy in Memory of David Walter' is large-scale work in every sense of the term. David Walter (1913-2003), an eminent player and teacher in New York for many years, was a good friend of Teppo Hauta-aho and they worked together on many occasions. David Walter always said that Teppo was his 'bodyguard'. 'Elegy-Fantasy in Memory of David Walter' is in one extended movement, lasting around ten minutes, and offers both musical and technical challenges to the advanced and enterprising bass quartet. The notes DAE, taken from David Walter's name, are a recurring feature throughout and there are clearly defined sections which add contrast and interest to this amazing work of breadth and imagination. The composer creates an exciting and exotic sound world, sometimes bleak and spare and at other time bright and expansive. The ever-changing moods and styles offer challenges aplenty and here is a work which req