composer
Maximiliano Amici, disciple of Luciano Pelosi and Stephen Jaffe, earned his master’s in music composition at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome. He also holds diplomas in electronic music and ...
related works
Prisms : for flute and vibraphone / Maximiliano Amici
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
fl vib
Invention : for piano solo, 1986 / Benjamin Ashkenazy
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Monument : for piano, 1991 / Robert Nasveld
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Sonate : per pianoforte, 1940 / Fré Focke
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
composition
Piano Pieces / Maximiliano Amici
Description:
Piano Pieces is a collection of four closely interrelated pieces, interspersed by three interludes. All the pieces are built around a two-part motif. This motif, the central idea of the collection, is about love. It can be heard for the first time at the very beginning of the first piece, which has no title, as emerging from the midst. The motive can be perceived clearly in the bass part of the second section of the first piece and can then be heard again, with many variations, in the following chorales. The figured chorale (figuration is a technical term that refers to the practice of embellishing melodies) elaborates a contrapuntal line that unites a traditional use of rhythm with unconventional (in this context) melodic repetitions. The second chorale, the central piece of the collection, presents the motive in three versions. It is bareboned at first, presented with a rapid and changeable figuration in the bass the second time, and finally ends with a superimposed counterpoint. The last piece, also untitled, synthesizes the preceding ones and presents the central theme several times, concluding with a sort of transfiguration. The interludes are meant to create mental space between the compositions and are constructed with a different set of themes and harmonic materials.