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5 Preludes pour la main gauche

By Ignace Lilien

genre
Chamber music
instrumentation
Piano 1 hand (pf1h)
year
1959
location of manuscript
www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl archive registration number 009/075b
dedication

à Cor de Groot

Details

5 Preludes for the left hand

1. Andante cantabile
2. Tempo di mazurka
3. Presto (leggiero)
4. Andante
5. Tempo di polka

See also: www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl catalogue application number 25149

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