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Offline adomiscz

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Any 20th century pieces?
on: December 18, 2020, 04:23:38 PM
Hey, do you guys have any tips for some short length (1-4 minutes) intermediate-advanced piano pieces of the 20th century?

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Offline fftransform

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Re: Any 20th century pieces?
Reply #1 on: December 19, 2020, 01:30:09 AM
Gonna assume you don't want stuff with a strong post-WWII aesthetic; if you do, then just lemme know.

Takemitsu has three pieces in the 4' range: Piano Distance, Rain Tree Sketch I and Rain Tree Sketch II.  If those are too hard, then I'd look at Kurtag's Jatekok.  There are hundreds of short pieces; most aren't the sort of thing you'd want to play for other people, but a number of them do get performed.

If some Soviet Futurism is sufficiently 20th Century, then here's a fav:



There are a lot of good Italian piano composers from mid-century that aren't too hard and aren't relentlessly dissonant.  Scelsi, Evangelisti, Aldo Clementi, Castiglioni and Ambrosini come to mind first.
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Offline andrewuk

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Re: Any 20th century pieces?
Reply #2 on: December 22, 2020, 10:56:10 AM
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