What is "kunstkabinett"

Kunstkabinett is a chamber work by the contemporary classical composer Jeffrey Ching. It was composed in Berlin on 05-28 June 2007, immediately after the completion of the first draft of the opera The Orphan, with which it shares both compositional approach and musical material (see below). Like its much larger sibling, Ching's Symphony No. 5, "Kunstkammer" (2006), it is an assemblage of musical objets d'art not obviously related in any way except by the personal taste of their collector.