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title: Four Pieces for Piano
slug: four-pieces-for-piano
instrumentation: For solo piano.
score: https://jessebrault.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/scores/four-pieces-for-piano.pdf
description: Written for Julia Hamos, each of the Four Pieces varies wildly in character.
shortInfo: Written for Julia Hamos.
date: 2019-05-01
categories:
- Solo
---
This work was written for my dear friend Julia Hamos.
It is a set of four small pieces, each varying wildly in character:
1. A "celebration", full of radiance, and in a flowing tempo.
2. A bit mysterious, and in a slow, very free tempo. Echoes of Debussy (who himself echoed Wagner).
3. A moderate toccata, alternating between quietly agitated (though somewhat playful) and furioso characters.
4. Slow. Feelings of resignation and loss.