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| Classical Composer: | Dallapiccola, Luigi |
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| Work: | Quaderno musicale di Annalibera |
| Year Composed: | 1952 |
| Instrumentation: | pf |
| Publisher: | Edizioni Suvini Zerboni |
| Duration: | 00:16:00 |
| Period: | 20th Century |
| Work Category: | Instrumental |
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In 1952 Dallapiccola wrote what is perhaps the most purely attractive of his instrumental works. Quaderno musicale di Annalibera (orchestrated two years later as Variazioni) is dedicated to the composer's daughter on the occasion of her eighth birthday, her name being a consequence of having being born in the wake of Florence's liberation from German occupation. The relaxed and engaging nature of the music belies its very strict technical apparatus, one embodying both the twelve-note serial thinking that the composer had absorbed over the preceding decade, and a direct homage to Bach. A transcription of his initials, B flat - A - C - B natural, is given at the opening of the first piece, Simbolo, in which serial and tonal elements combine in a prelude of thoughtful anticipation, perhaps the nearest Dallapiccola came to evoking the spare late manner of Busoni. The brusque manner of Accenti leads directly into the elegant canon of Contrapunctus primus, then the limpid melodic flow of Linee similarly precedes the playful Contrapunctus secundus. Fregi has the feel of a nocturne, while Andantino amoroso e Contrapunctus tertius has a melodic line played forwards as well as backwards. The playful Ritmi is followed by the sensuous Colore, then the stark Ombre, before Quartina rounds off the suite expressively much as it began.
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