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Scherzo over Beethoven

Piano a 4 manos

COLOMÉ, Delfí

Reg.: B.3363

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  • Ensemble: Duos: .
  • Genres: Classical / contemporary: Chamber.
  • Product format: Partitura
  • Difficulty level: Intermediate
  • Period: 2nd half S. XX - XXI
  • Publishing house: Editorial Boileau
  • Collection: Siglo XXI
  • No. of pages: 28
  • Measure: 31,00 x 23,00 cm
  • Lenght: 6'45"
  • ISMN: 979-0-3503-0273-2
  • Available in digital: No
  • Available for rent: No

The original version of this Scherzo over Beethoven -commissioned by Jeunesses Musicales- is for string quartet.  The Signum Quartett, from Stuttgart, premiered it in November 1995, at the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid. Almost simultaneously, I wrote the chamber orchestra version, premiered by Orquestra de Cambra de l'Empordà, at the Barcelona Municipal Conservatory, some days later. The four-hands piano duet composed by the sisters Ester and Eulàlia Vela, asked me to write the present version, what I did, between Singapore and manila, all along 2002.  The composition is dedicated to the Vela sisters.

This is a piece based on the very first notes of For Elisa, by Beethoven, a fragment that every person who has no idea about music uses to play when first sitting at a piano, as if obeying to an almost anthropological impulse. On the other hand, the reference done in its title to Chuck Berry's Roll over Beethoven, wants to evoke the amount of rock I played when I was young.

Reporting its premiere, a critic wrote: "An original, amazing, imaginative partition with a direct and very clear message; a suggestive and interesting joke that puts in evidence maestro Colome’s characteristical witt".

Delfí Colomé

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