Piano Solo

SKU: HL.51481158

Piano Solo. Composed by Sergei Prokoviev. Edited by Norbert Gertsch. Henle Music Folios. Classical. Softcover. 48 pages. G. Henle #HN1158. Published by G. Henle (HL.51481158).

UPC: 196288209164. 9.0x12.0x0.172 inches.

Prokofiev did not compose his Visions fugitives â?? 20 â??fleeting visionsâ? â?? in one go, but in clusters between 1915 and 1917, immediately before the Russian Revolution that compelled him to leave his native country in 1918. We know from his diaries that at least some of them owe their existence to extra-musical impulses. Thus several pieces were inspired by people close to him. Others impart his emotional reaction to the political situation with its menacing brutality. According to his own statement, for example, no. 19 â??was inspired by the events of February 1917 in Petrogradâ?, during the Revolution's first phase. Technically the pieces are not too demanding, and are also often used in teaching. They now appear for the first time in an Urtext edition that considers all the musical sources created during the composer's lifetime. In his preface, Prokofiev specialist Simon Morrison provides biographical context for the genesis of this fantastic piano cycle.

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Piano (Piano Solo)

SKU: HL.48025031

Piano. Composed by Simon Laks. BH Piano. Classical. Softcover. 16 pages. Bote & Bock #M202534854. Published by Bote & Bock (HL.48025031).

UPC: 196288019954. 9.0x12.0x0.129 inches.

Simon (Polish: Szymon) Laks, born in Warsaw in 1901, had worked in Paris since 1926, where he stood out as one of the most importantrepresentatives of Polish modernism in the context of the Groupe de Six and the Ecole de Paris. Promoted by Szymanowski and inspiredby Ravel, he amalgamated neoclassicism of French provenance with elements of Polish folk music tradition and influences from jazz. Laks work was dramatically interrupted by internment and deportation. He survived Auschwitz as a member and leader of a camp chapel, to which he gave poignant testimony in his book Music in Auschwitz (978-3-7931-4082-5). The piano pieces, which were createdindependently of one another and are summarized as a cycle in this volume, reflect the stylistic range of Laks oeuvre, his typical juggling with the levels E and U and his own profound sense of humor. Simon Lak's 'oeuvre, which is attracting increasing international attention, is published exclusively by Boosey & Hawkes.