related works
Spatial music IV : homage to Igor Strawinsky, for twelve players / Ton de Leeuw
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
5wind-instr 2perc pf 2vl vla vc
Le tombeau de Van Gogh : 20 pièces pour piano, 1951 / Fré Focke
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Invention : for piano solo, 1986 / Benjamin Ashkenazy
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Mazurka : voor piano, 1990 / Ludwig Otten
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
composition
Les adieux : for piano / Ton de Leeuw
Author(s):
Leeuw, Ton de
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): 'Les Adieux', an extensive one-movement work for piano, was written in 1988 as the result of a commission by the Amsterdam Arts Fund.
It is a sequel to the group of works, written since approx. 1980, in so-called "widened modality".
The work opens with a short, nearly declamatoric introduction, after which the profile of the work's musical universe is outlined. What follows is a broad, tranquilly breathing movement, with a central two-tone motif that - in some form or the other - remains present in the background. The surrounding music is subject to continuous transformations, without ever overstepping its bounds. - TON DE LEEUW