Forbidden Music Regained


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Sonate pour piano

By Ignace Lilien

genre
Chamber music
instrumentation
Piano (pf)
year
1927
location of manuscript
www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl archive registration number 009/067

Details

(Christmas 1927) (Possibly the same as ‘1e sonate pour piano’)

About Ignace Lilien

Ignace Lilien

His hometown Lemberg, in the Ukraine known as Lviv, and in Poland as Lwów, has a history of occupation by shifting powers. This is why the Germans had trouble figuring out Ignace Lilien's real identity; he survived the war with forged documents. He worked as a chemical engineer, but that didn’t stop him from composing a large oeuvre. His life was as varied as his music, with influences ranging from Polish modernism to South American rhythms and timbres.

by Frans van Ruth