Herman Vogt

The Norwegian composer Herman Vogt is concerned with the contrasts between the vague, veiled and ambiguous, and the obvious and clear. He constantly utilizes historic material, for instance in 'Danksagung an den Bach' where the base form is a lied from Schubert’s 'Die schöne Müllerin', and in the '…wenn alle Länder wüst lägen…', where the Petter Dass psalm 'Herre Gud ditt dyre Navn og Ære' is a central element. In the core of these works, just as in many of his other works, lies the treating of the existing material as something frail and transitory, combined with a strongly expanded tonality derived from the line of overtones.