Ernst Krenek (1900-1991)
Concerto pour piano et orchestre n° 1 op. 18 en fa dièse majeur (1923)
- General information
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Composition date:
1923
- Duration: 30 mn
- Publisher: Universal Edition
- Opus: 18
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Composition date:
1923
- Type
- Concertant music [Piano and orchestra]
Detailed formation
- soloist: piano
- 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, trumpet, strings
Premiere information
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Date:
19 December 1923
Location:Suisse, Winterthur
Performers:Eduard Erdmann : piano, Hermann Scherchen.
Program note
By the time Eduard Erdmann (1896–1958) asked Krenek for a tonal piano concerto, the young composer had already embraced atonal music. But he took on the commission, seeing it as a welcome challenge, and composed the piece in F# major. The concerto begins and ends with solos for the piano – a formal device he returned to in the two subsequent piano concertos. In the general view, Schubert’s influence on Krenek did not emerge until about 1929; but Krenek acknowledged that he was already using the “tonal artifices” he had learned from Schubert when he wrote his Op. 18 concerto in 1923.
Source : Universal Edition.