Four Apparitions
for Piano
by Lowell Liebermann
Chamber Music - Sheet Music

Chamber Music Piano

SKU: PR.410412920

For Piano. Composed by Lowell Liebermann. Solo part. With Standard notation. Opus 17. Duration 13 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #410-41292. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.410412920).

UPC: 680160087006.

The Four Apparitions Op. 17 are prefaced by a short Whitman poem -- more an epigram -- called Apparitions, from which I borrowed my own title. (There is also a set of wonderfully strange Liszt piano pieces by the same name). the poem reads as follows: A Vague mist hanging 'round these pages:/(Sometimes how strange and clear to the soul,/That all these solid things are indeed but apparitions, concepts, non-realities). Whitman's modest little poem in all its brevity evokes all sorts of questions concerning the relationship between form, matter and idea, and as such is particularly well-suited as a commentary on abstract music. the four Apparitions were written for and dedicated to David Korevaar, who gave them their first performance at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City in 1987 and recorded them for the Musical Heritage Society label. The four pieces are meant to be performed as a set and contain subtle rhythmic and motivic ideas which link them together.   The Four Apparitions have been recorded by David Korevaar for Music Heritage Society and by Christina Petrowska for JLH Lasersound.