Twilight Thoughts
Leopold Godowsky 1870–1938
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Themes & character
Intimate miniature·Approachable Godowsky·Reflective mood·Salon scale
About the piece
A quiet, reflective miniature, and evidence that a composer notorious for impossible difficulty also wrote music an ordinary pianist can play.
Godowsky's smaller pieces, including the Triakontameron of thirty short works and the Java Suite, are far less known than the Chopin studies but show the same harmonic subtlety on a domestic scale.
The composer
Leopold Godowsky
1870–1938
Leopold Mordkhelovich Godowsky Sr. was a virtuoso pianist, composer and teacher, born in what is now Lithuania to Jewish parents, who became an American citizen in 1891. He was one of the most highly regarded performers of his time, known for his theories concerning the application of relaxed weight and economy of motion within pianistic technique – principles later propagated by his pupils, such as Heinrich Neuhaus.
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