related works

The Moss Slowly Growing : for flute and guitar / Ville Raasakka

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: fl gtr

Muziek voor eurythmie : voor piano solo, 1981 / Corry de Roo-Vierdag

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Apparition : per due pianoforti, (oct. '60) / Cor de Groot

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: 2pf

Aleph-Beth : for piano / Boris Filanovsky

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

composition

Vanishing point : for piano / Ville Raasakka

Other authors:
Raasakka, Ville (Composer)
Description:
Vanishing Point was commissioned by Risto-Matti Marin for a celebratory concert on the 200th birthday of Wagner. The starting point for the work is a short piano piece by Wagner called Ankunft bei den schwarzen Schwänen – Albumblatt in As-Dur für Klavier (WWV 95).
I wanted to put the original work into a distance. The piece, supposed to be a sonic model, began to go further and further while composing. The only thing remaining from the original is a single pitch: A point in the horizon.
The vanishing point is a term from the visual arts, representing a way of drawing perspective where all the lines in a painting point towards one point. I wanted to create my own landscape, where Wagner is only a focal point in the farthest distance, at the point of vanishing.
Ville Raasakka