Angelus Piano Solo - Digital Sheet Music

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A note from the composer

“Angelus” is the first piece from the soon-to-be published 24 Impromptus by Dante Anzolini. Its title refers to the Catholic devotion prayers recited three times a day: in the morning, the afternoon, and at night. Reflecting this structure, the piece is divided into three iterations of an original theme, shifting between C minor and F♯ minor, A minor and E♭ minor, and finally F♯ minor and C minor.

The wordplay of the title Angelus implies its opposite, Diabolus—the “evil” tritone interval—mirrored here through transpositional inversion.

The piece was inspired by Giosuè Carducci’s 1897 poem La Chiesa di Polenta all’Angelus, which speaks of a “melody that walks through—invisible between earth and heavens—spirits that were, are, and will be.”

The melody of Angelus takes the form of variations based on an improvisation and a draft of arpeggios by the composer. It emulates meditative prayer while drawing on Bach’s compositional techniques, transformed through a pan-tonal structure. When midnight—the final prayer—arrives, a coda appears.

The spirit of Bach once existed, exists still, and will always return to us.

Note: All accidentals apply only to subsequent individual notes.

- Dante Santiago Anzolini.