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Performed by Martine Joste and Sylvaine Billier.
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Wyschnegradsky's "Dithyramb" was composed between 1923-4, being premiered at the Salle Chopin-Pleyel in Paris on June 6 of 1926, performed by Henri Cliquet-Pleyel and Dominique Jeanes as part of a Russian music concert. The composer revised the score multiple times afterwards, going as far as thirty years later after being finished, but didn't leave a definitive version of the piece. Two scores remain, the first with piano 1 in traditional notation and piano 2 in notation with symbols of quarter-tones, the other with piano II in normal notation and piano 1 with quarter-tone signs.
On each of the scores, he wrote numerous modifications in pencil: added notes, deleted notes, rhythmic values changed, entire bars and passages deleted. But those modifications are different on the two scores. Canadian composer Bruce Mather made a performable version of the piece in 1990, which was then played at the Centre Pompidou in Paris on February 28 of 1991, performe by Sylvaine Billier and Martine Joste. Sadly I couldn't find more info on the piece, but if there are other sources that talks in depth about the piece, please tell me in the comments section.
Picture: "Blue Painting" (1924) by Russian-French painter Wassily Kandinsky.
Source: tinyurl.com/2dqla7dp
Unfortunately, the score isn't available.
Performed by Martine Joste and Sylvaine Billier.
I - 0:00
Wyschnegradsky's "Dithyramb" was composed between 1923-4, being premiered at the Salle Chopin-Pleyel in Paris on June 6 of 1926, performed by Henri Cliquet-Pleyel and Dominique Jeanes as part of a Russian music concert. The composer revised the score multiple times afterwards, going as far as thirty years later after being finished, but didn't leave a definitive version of the piece. Two scores remain, the first with piano 1 in traditional notation and piano 2 in notation with symbols of quarter-tones, the other with piano II in normal notation and piano 1 with quarter-tone signs.
On each of the scores, he wrote numerous modifications in pencil: added notes, deleted notes, rhythmic values changed, entire bars and passages deleted. But those modifications are different on the two scores. Canadian composer Bruce Mather made a performable version of the piece in 1990, which was then played at the Centre Pompidou in Paris on February 28 of 1991, performe by Sylvaine Billier and Martine Joste. Sadly I couldn't find more info on the piece, but if there are other sources that talks in depth about the piece, please tell me in the comments section.
Picture: "Blue Painting" (1924) by Russian-French painter Wassily Kandinsky.
Source: tinyurl.com/2dqla7dp
Unfortunately, the score isn't available.
