Egon Wellesz
Konzert
Duration: 20'
Solos:
Klavier
Instrumentation details:
2 2 2 2 - 4 2 1 0 - str
Wellesz - Konzert for piano and orchestra
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Egon Wellesz
Wellesz: Konzert - op. 49Orchestration: for piano and orchestra
Type: Klavierauszug
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Egon Wellesz
Wellesz: Konzert - op. 49Orchestration: for piano and orchestra
Type: Partitur
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In his 20-minute Piano Concerto, Schönberg student Egon Wellesz proved himself an outstanding connoisseur of musical history, presenting a kind of pastiche in this work. With its motor rhythms, the first movement is neoclassical with echoes of Bach (one quotation strongly calls to mind the Piano Concerto in D Minor). The second movement is reminiscent of Rachmaninoff; the sub-theme has a definite, Mussorgsky-style Russian character. The third movement is the most varied, moving through a fantastic panorama from Beethoven to Liszt to Weill.