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Philip Glass - Etude No. 1 (from Études For Solo Piano, Book 1)
When holidays are complemented with something I’m quite passionate about - vintage pianos. This year I happen to be spending my holidays in a cozy studio right next to the dunes by the North Sea. And in itself - this is already a great happiness, but double this happiness - when you have at your disposal an old vintage J. L. Duysen grand piano built in 1907 (more on this brand below). Of course, I took a few microphones with me - and here is the result.
Notes from Philip Glass:
The Etudes began for me in the mid-90s and I am still adding new music to this collection as I write these notes in 2003. Their purpose was two-fold. First, to provide new music for my solo piano concerts. And second, for me to expand mv piano technique with music that would enhance and challenge my playing. Hence, the name Etudes, or “studies”. The result is a body of work that has a broad range of dynamic, tempo and emotion.
“The point of the etudes, originally, was to strengthen my piano playing and that actually worked. I actually got to be a better player by learning those pieces – that would be the first ten. The first ten I wrote in the 90s through 2001, the second ten I wrote in 2004 to the present.
The first ten really have a pedagogical aspect to them for my own development. The second set have nothing or very little to do with that. I began working on a world of ideas. The issue of tonality has been a major issue in music for about 300 years and it hasn’t gone away. With all the 12 tone music of the 20th century we still have tons of tonal music around. 12 tone music made a slight dent, but not a very big one.”
The original six etudes were written for Dennis Russell Davies and Achyn Freyer on the occasion of Davies’ 50th birthday. Glass composed an additional four for himself to expand his own piano technique, occasionally in response to individual commissions. Nos.1-10 belong to Book 1 (1994)
*About piano:
Jes Leve (Lewe) Duysen (born August 1, 1820 in Dagebüll , † August 30, 1903 in Berlin ) was a German piano maker who founded the JL Duysen piano factory in Berlin in 1860.
Duysen completed his apprenticeship with the piano maker Hansen in Flensburg from 1837 to 1841 . In the following 20 years he worked for numerous piano manufacturing companies in Germany before founding his own piano factory in Leipziger Strasse 39 in Berlin in 1860 . Within a few years he managed to make his instruments known worldwide and to establish them at numerous courts. For the rapidly growing company, Duysen acquired a large piece of land at Friedrichstrasse 219 in 1867 , and one year later he already employed 80 people. Between 1890 and 1903 around 500 instruments were built per year, half pianos and half grand pianos.
Jes Leve Duysen died in Berlin in 1903 at the age of 83 and was buried in Cemetery I of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of the Hallesches Tor . His neo-Romanesque grave monument has been preserved.
From 1903 the company was initially continued by Duysen's widow and three nephews. Several changes in the legal form and ownership followed, in 1926 production was relocated to Braunschweig , while the sales rooms remained in Berlin. In 1928 the headquarters of the entire company was relocated to Braunschweig, and one year later the Duysen piano factory was merged with other companies (including Wilhelm Schimmel Pianofortefabrik ) in the Deutsche Piano-Werke AG. For this merger later individual companies are excreted, the history of Duysen pianos ended in 1955. Even today received numerous instruments mainly privately owned, a grand piano in the Germanic National Museum in Nürnberg.
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Philip Glass - Etude No. 1 (from Études For Solo Piano, Book 1)
When holidays are complemented with something I’m quite passionate about - vintage pianos. This year I happen to be spending my holidays in a cozy studio right next to the dunes by the North Sea. And in itself - this is already a great happiness, but double this happiness - when you have at your disposal an old vintage J. L. Duysen grand piano built in 1907 (more on this brand below). Of course, I took a few microphones with me - and here is the result.
Notes from Philip Glass:
The Etudes began for me in the mid-90s and I am still adding new music to this collection as I write these notes in 2003. Their purpose was two-fold. First, to provide new music for my solo piano concerts. And second, for me to expand mv piano technique with music that would enhance and challenge my playing. Hence, the name Etudes, or “studies”. The result is a body of work that has a broad range of dynamic, tempo and emotion.
“The point of the etudes, originally, was to strengthen my piano playing and that actually worked. I actually got to be a better player by learning those pieces – that would be the first ten. The first ten I wrote in the 90s through 2001, the second ten I wrote in 2004 to the present.
The first ten really have a pedagogical aspect to them for my own development. The second set have nothing or very little to do with that. I began working on a world of ideas. The issue of tonality has been a major issue in music for about 300 years and it hasn’t gone away. With all the 12 tone music of the 20th century we still have tons of tonal music around. 12 tone music made a slight dent, but not a very big one.”
The original six etudes were written for Dennis Russell Davies and Achyn Freyer on the occasion of Davies’ 50th birthday. Glass composed an additional four for himself to expand his own piano technique, occasionally in response to individual commissions. Nos.1-10 belong to Book 1 (1994)
*About piano:
Jes Leve (Lewe) Duysen (born August 1, 1820 in Dagebüll , † August 30, 1903 in Berlin ) was a German piano maker who founded the JL Duysen piano factory in Berlin in 1860.
Duysen completed his apprenticeship with the piano maker Hansen in Flensburg from 1837 to 1841 . In the following 20 years he worked for numerous piano manufacturing companies in Germany before founding his own piano factory in Leipziger Strasse 39 in Berlin in 1860 . Within a few years he managed to make his instruments known worldwide and to establish them at numerous courts. For the rapidly growing company, Duysen acquired a large piece of land at Friedrichstrasse 219 in 1867 , and one year later he already employed 80 people. Between 1890 and 1903 around 500 instruments were built per year, half pianos and half grand pianos.
Jes Leve Duysen died in Berlin in 1903 at the age of 83 and was buried in Cemetery I of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of the Hallesches Tor . His neo-Romanesque grave monument has been preserved.
From 1903 the company was initially continued by Duysen's widow and three nephews. Several changes in the legal form and ownership followed, in 1926 production was relocated to Braunschweig , while the sales rooms remained in Berlin. In 1928 the headquarters of the entire company was relocated to Braunschweig, and one year later the Duysen piano factory was merged with other companies (including Wilhelm Schimmel Pianofortefabrik ) in the Deutsche Piano-Werke AG. For this merger later individual companies are excreted, the history of Duysen pianos ended in 1955. Even today received numerous instruments mainly privately owned, a grand piano in the Germanic National Museum in Nürnberg.
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