related works
Two Mandelstam Songs : for soprano or tenor and piano / Elena Langer; on text of Osip Mandelstam
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
sopr/ten pf
Suite : voor piano of clavecimbel, (1937) / Herman Strategier
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano; Harpsichord
Scoring:
pf/cemb
The Waves : for 2 harpsichords and spinet ad libitum / André Douw
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harpsichord
Scoring:
2cemb(1spt ad lib.)
Muziek : voor twee clavecymbels, (1974) / Jan Welmers
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harpsichord
Scoring:
2cemb
composition
L'Armoire de Couperin : Version for harpsichord / Elena Langer
Other authors:
Langer, Elena
(Composer)
Description:
While my piece hasn’t got much in common with Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin, the title reflects a similar idea of looking back on the Baroque, and paying homage to it.
The piece is in two movements, both of which play with the idea of the Baroque idiom, or being part of an imaginary Baroque suite. The first is delicate and dancing. As the second progresses, a Baroque tune gradually takes shape out of a twelve-tone row. Once the Baroque tune is complete, it dissolves again and disappears back into chromaticism.
Elena Langer