Chamber Music flute,
piano
SKU:
PR.114416460
For
Flute and Piano.
Composed by Thaddeus
Kozuch. Contemporary. Set
of Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 1937. 4+1 pages.
Duration 3 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-41646. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114416460).
ISBN
9781598067811. UPC:
680160620616. 9x12
inches.
POEM for
Flute and
PianoKozuch’s POEM
is a plaintive elegy,
perfect for memorial
concerts, in religious
services, or as a lyric
interlude in recital.
Although composed with
piano accompaniment, the
music is also very
effective in performance
with organ. Thaddeus
Kozuch (1913-1991) was a
Chicago-based pianist,
composer, and professor
at DePaul University and
Northwestern University.
His beautiful POEM was
composed originally for
violin and piano in 1937
for his wife-to-be,
Jacqueline Frye. He
revised POEM for flute
and piano in 1988 but the
work was discovered only
recently in a piano bench
by the composer’s
daughter, flutist Ann
Fairbanks.Although the
final pencil manuscript
is musically complete, it
lacks dynamics, and this
publication presents the
music as the composer
left it.The following
performance suggestions
are provided by Ann
Fairbanks:Many nuances of
the work may be left to
the discretion of the
performer. There are
quite a few notes that
may be slurred, such as
sets of eighth notes or
triplet-eighths; if notes
are articulated as
written, the tonguing
should be legato.Dynamics
for both flute and piano
could be as follows:
begin the work p, then
crescendo to f in bars
6-7. Decrescendo in 10-11
to a p in bar 12. The
most intense section
(bars 16-32) should be
played with energy and
full sonority, including
a crescendo in 26 to fin
27. The conclusion,
beginning at bar 42,
should be played p, with
the last measures
performed quietly.
