Sancan

[pianowelsh]

Hi guys just been browsing though a syllabus and saw Sancan toccata?!? Do any of you know it play it ? what is it like (no more than 500 words please) Does anybody know about  Sancan the composer and whether he/she? wrote extensively for the instrument.

[Schumann Lover]

Pierre Sancan is a pianist, a composer, and a professor (at the Paris Conservatory, I think). I've played his Toccata for piano. It's a typical toccata with fast alternating chords, lots of chromaticism, in A-B-A form. There is nothing profound about this piece, but it's very virtuoso and effective, and it's only three minutes in length. The only othe work I know by Sancan is the Sonata for Flute and Piano.

[pianistavt]

Where can I get the sheet music to this Toccata?

[thorn]

Scorser 

I started out as a flautist where the standard repertoire features a lot of 20th c French composers considered obscure in a piano context- Sancan, Dutilleux, Roussel, Jolivet etc. (Off topic but Jolivet is my favourite, give Chant de Linos a listen)

[pianistavt]

Scorser 

I started out as a flautist where the standard repertoire features a lot of 20th c French composers considered obscure in a piano context- Sancan, Dutilleux, Roussel, Jolivet etc. (Off topic but Jolivet is my favourite, give Chant de Linos a listen)

That worked!  Thank you!  Nice clean copy too.