Ludus tonalis
composer: Paul Hindemith
Studies in Counterpoint, Tonal Organisation & Piano Playing
Premiere: 15. Februar 1943 Chicago - Willard McGregor
Instrumentation: piano
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 60' 0''
Year of composition: 1942
Difficulty: Advanced
64 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-001-04763-0
ISBN: 978-3-7957-9562-7
Order number: ED 3964
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Description
Th cycle of fugues is introduced and concluded by a Praeludium and Postludium, the second formed by turning the Praeludium upside down and reading it backwards. In solving technical problems he posed himself, Hindemith created not a dry exercise but a work of considerable imagination. Intellectual achievement and sheer delight in playing are shown not to be mutually exclusive. The Ludus is a graphc example of the composer's delight in the fantastic, offered to his wife, born under the sign of Leo, as a birthday present. He illustrated the work with colored pencil, among other things drawing a lion for each entry of the subject of the fugues and for each of the twelve a different kind of lion, according to the character of the music, originally published in a limited edition but providing an instructive formal analysis of the music.
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