A Ligeti Example of How to Make a Piano (or a Piano Piece) Stutter
Gustavo Penha
In his Étude 3: Touches bloquées, published in his First Book of piano studies, the Hungarian composer György Ligeti explores a singular piano technique in which some keys are depressed and held by one hand while the fingers of the other hand make some movements stroking these depressed and held keys without producing its correspondent sound notes. It is for this technical reason that...
November 22, 2017
Orpheus Institute, Concert Hall
in absence
music and sound
György Ligeti