Luciano Berio
Petite Suite
Duration: 10'
Instrumentation details:
piano
Berio - Petite Suite for piano
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Luciano Berio
Berio Family AlbumOrchestration: for piano, piano 4 hands, voice and piano
Type: Noten
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Work introduction
It could be said that the Petite
Suite is neoclassical music. Written when Berio was 22, each of its short movements is reminiscent of a past
composer, always irrupted; the Prelude might be from the Well-Tempered Clavier, as estranged by Hindemith, the Gigue sounds
like Prokofiev’s approach to that 18th-century dance, the Petite air I could derive from Bartók’s Mikrokosmos, while the Petite
air II perhaps suggests Ravel.