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On escalation : opus 18, for six solo-percussionplayers and orchestra, Amsterdam 1968 / Peter Schat
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Percussion and large ensemble
Scoring:
3533 2sax-t 2210 2el.g vl vla vc 6perc-solo
Pavane e passamezzo : per clavicembalo, o clavicordio, o pianoforte, 1962 / Jurriaan Andriessen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harpsichord; Harpsichord; Piano
Scoring:
cemb/clav/pf
Stukken : voor piano, 1982 / Huib Emmer
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Sonata 7 (Gulp of Earth) : for piano / Svyatoslav Lunyov
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
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composition
Anathema : (opus 19), for piano, (1969) / Peter Schat
Other authors:
Schat, Peter
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): 'Anathema' was commissioned by the city of Amsterdam and written in the summer of 1969. It was a summer of unrest, with police and marine charges around the National Monument, where young people were camping out, thus breaking a taboo - Anathema.
Another taboo was attacked in the music of that period: the then current outlawing (anathema) of melody. Quotations of other styles appeared in innumerable serial works - at the 'dictates' of the musical subconscious (cf. Berio's 'Sinfonia', or 'Reconstructie'). Similarly, in this piano piece, a tonal theme appears in Baroque, Impressionist and Romantic guise, forming an irreconcilable contrast with the otherwise entirely serial idiom. In this way the work marks the transition to an idiom in which 'dissonance' and 'consonance' are entirely integrated (as in 'Canto general'). 'Anathema' is dedicated to Marina Schapers. The closing bars were written on the day Ho Chi Minh died (4 September 1969) and with him the revolutionary fervour of the sixties. - PETER SCHAT