Marsyas
for Piano solo
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Olga Neuwirth
Marsyas
for Piano solo
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Olga Neuwirth
Marsyas

for Piano solo

  • Instrumentation Piano
  • Composer Olga Neuwirth
  • Difficulty Level
    (difficult)
  • Edition Sheet Music Download
  • Publisher Bote & Bock
  • Order no. BB3969-DL
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Description:

  • Pages: 30
  • Term: 13:00
  • Genre: Classical Music, Classical Music of the Modern Age
Marsyas is a character from Greek mythology. A master of the aulos, he was the adversary of the lyre-playing Apollo. When Apollo ordered musicians to accompany themselves when singing, Marsyas' fate was sealed. Neuwirth uses Marsyas as a synonym for aspects excluded from our present-day culture - art becoming passionate, intense and emotional - and, at the same time, formally falls back on the huge Marsyas sculpture by the Indian artist Anish Kapoor: its organic, coiled form, spiral curves and gigantic cup-shaped openings, transferred to the excessive tonal language typical of Neuwirth.