Charlie Orth

Charlie Orth (Charles Orth, 1850-1893), German composer. He is one of the founders of modern light music. There were not many works left in his lifetime, but his representative work "The Clock Shop" (orchestral piece) is a masterpiece of descriptive title music. It is still popular today and is often played in concerts.

Chinese name: Charlie Orth

Foreign name: Charles Orth

Date of birth: 1850

Date of death: 1893

Occupation: German composer

Representative work: "The Clock Shop"

Gender: Male

The first translation of "The Clock Shop" "The Clock", a world-famous light music piece, is one of the three most famous descriptive title pieces along with Ellenberg's "Forest Waterwheel" and Michael Ellis's "The Blacksmith in the Forest".

The music adopts plastic expression techniques. It starts with a sound that imitates the sound of a door opening, and then the music plays a sound that imitates the regular ticking and clicking sounds of various clocks such as wall clocks, alarm clocks, and pocket watches in watch shops (fragment 1). A few whistles sounded from time to time, which reminded people of a leisurely clockmaker cleaning the shop while whistling. Then there is a sound that imitates the unwinding of the spring and the clockmaker winding it, and the clock continues to run (fragment 2). Then, the music also featured a Scottish folk song melody played by a music box. Finally, the atmosphere was warm and the music ended with the sound of various clocks striking four o'clock at the same time.