related works
Image de Moreau : for piano / Louis Andriessen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pno
Textos : for harpsichord, 1987 / Walter Hekster
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harpsichord
Scoring:
cemb
Fantasia II : per clavicembalo, (1972-'73) / Piet Ketting
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harpsichord
Scoring:
cemb
Harpsi-kord : for tape and harpsichordist, 1988 / David Little
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harpsichord; Electronics with different instruments; Harpsichord with multimedia
Scoring:
cemb tape
composition
Overture to Orpheus : for harpsichord, 1982 / Louis Andriessen
Other authors:
Andriessen, Louis
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): A harpsichord has little to do with a piano, but rather with plucked instruments such as harp, guitar, lute. Orpheus' prelude-playing came to my mind when writing the composition. A reference to dramatic development in this piece makes it an overture for an imaginary opera in which Orpheus plays the leading part. The fringe between canon and unisono techniques - just as in my other works from recent years - is the musical subject of the composition. - LOUIS ANDRIESSEN