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Piano Pieces / Maximiliano Amici
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Music for piano II / Reinbert de Leeuw
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Spelen met Liszt : voor 5 piano's (15 spelers) of een veelvoud daarvan, 1997 / Caecilia Andriessen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano; Piano
Scoring:
5pf or more
Boyd Panels : for piano / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
composition
Solo : Fictionalized description of a creative process for piano / Maximiliano Amici
Other authors:
Amici, Maximiliano
(Composer)
Description:
One of the infinite ways of composing music consists of sitting at the piano, alone – hence the title Solo – starting to dream and exploring endless combinations of sounds, letting the mind go, and then fixing on paper the best results of those sessions. With this piece, I try to capture the magic of some of those moments while also recounting something about the creative process itself in a self-reflective way.
In fact, the actual creative unfolding is often not as linear as what you will hear. I "cut out the dull bits" and chose not to insert in the final composition the countless interruptions, temper tantrums, and dead ends that often pervade such sessions. Nonetheless, as you will hear, I did describe some ‘failed attempts,’ and the piece does mock some hitches and glitches of the creative process. In writing this music, I tried to create something unique and poetic.
Maximilano Amici