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Twelve Variations for piano duet (1997)
(‘Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung’)
The piece takes as its subtitle the expression marking from the second
movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in E Major, Opus 109: “Gesangvoll,
mit innigster Empfindung”. Literally, ‘songful with inner
feeling’. The subtitle suggests an internalised depth and calmness
of expression as well as the presence of an inner line in the musical
texture. The idea in 12 Variations is the gradual expansion of the music
from a spacious, gentle melody to richer and more textured worlds drawing
on an ambiguity of structure where the discontinuity of variation form
is offset by a larger dramatic shape. 12 Variations for piano duet was
composed in 1997 in response to an Australia Council for the Arts commission
by Stephen Emmerson and Bernard Lanskey.
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