Piano Duet
SKU:
BT.EMBZ2839
Composed
by Pal Jardanyi.
Contemporary Music. Book
Only. Composed 1960. 44
pages. Editio Musica
Budapest #EMBZ2839.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ2839).
Sonata for Two
Pianos was written in
1942 by Pál
Járdányi at the
young age of twenty-two
years old when he had
recently graduated from
the Academy of Music. It
is a quintessential showy
concert piece which
György Ligeti
evaluated in 1949, when
the sheet music was first
released, as the 'worthy
companion' of Bartók's
and Hindemith's two-piano
sonatas. The composition,
originally written for
string quartet, was
reworked into an
arrangement for keyboard
instruments by
Járdányi on
Kodály's advice,
preserving the musical
language of the work
which refers to Bartók
in many places, and in
which the features of
Járdányi's later
style can already be
seen.