Praeludium (Waterhouse)
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| Praeludium | |
|---|---|
| Piano piece by Graham Waterhouse | |
 The composer in 2011 | |
| Opus | 32 |
| Composed | 1992 |
| Performed | 1993: London |
| Published | 2002 |
Praeludium (Prelude), Op. 32, is a piece for piano by Graham Waterhouse, composed in 1992 and published by Lienau in 2002. The virtuoso composition has been played in concert internationally, and was recorded.
Music
Praeludium is written in one movement, in common time, marked Allegro agitato.[3] A rhythmic-chromatic theme is contrasted by a lyrical one, culminating in a virtuoso coda.[1] The duration is given as six minutes.[4] A 2005 review in Neue Musikzeitung, comparing newly published music for pianists, described the piece as "a dramatic concert piece with gushing figurations, lyrical insertions, polyphonic elements, harmonic refinement and a purposefully intensified enormous conclusion" ("... dramatisches Konzertstück mit sprudelnden Figurationen, lyrischen Einschüben, polyphonen Elementen, harmonischen Raffinessen und einem zielstrebig gesteigerten, enormen Schluss").[4]
