general information

composition date
1982
duration
14 min
editor
Boosey & Hawkes
Dedicatee
à Gijs van der Grinten

type

Chamber music (Piano and violin duo)

detailed formation

violin, piano

information about the creation

date
November 30, 1899

Program note

Disco is a poorly rotating disc. The musical subject of the piece is the invention of the quadruple metre, of the key of G major, of a violin-piano duet. Like Ravel's Tzigane, Disco refers to a musical dance genre. But times have changed. Nothing goes smoothly any more.



Louis Andriessen.

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