Adagio No. 1: No. 1a (Piano) by Peter Dickson Lopez Sheet Music for Piano Solo at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Title Adagio No. 1: No. 1a (Piano)

Artist Peter Dickson Lopez

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Peter Dickson Lopez

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 44

Arrangement Piano Solo

Publisher Peter Dickson Lopez

Level 5

Product ID 1083205

Genre Contemporary

Instruments Piano

Product Description

MUSIC SCORE - Piano Solo Lopez (1950 - ) composed his First Adagio for Piano in 1973. Originally it was included as the middle movement of a three movement sonata, but Lopez felt that the Adagio was strong enough to stand alone, and so extracted this movement as a piece in its own right. In fact, this is the only movement of the sonata that was completed at that time, and Lopez performed the Adagio No. 1 in numerous piano solo concerts from 1973. Lopez ultimately submitted the Adagio No. 1 as his Masters Thesis, and it was in part due to the emotional maturity and contrapuntal sophistication of the piece that Lopez was subsequently invited to continue on in the doctoral program at the University of California at Berkeley. In the years following, Lopez planned to write a series of these adagios for piano, and so he later titled this work Adagio No. 1. In fact, he jotted down sketches for several other piano adagios but never developed or completed any of these during his early years. Years later Lopez would return to this early piece (Version 1a) to recompose the work for symphony orchestra. The orchestra version (Version 1b) is not merely a "transcription" of the early piece but a true re-rendering of the original concept for a fuller realization of the timbral and contrapuntal implications of the first version. Not satisfied with this, Lopez would go on to compose a third version (Version 1c) of the work for orchestra and piano solo.

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