Doncaster Arts and Music Society
Date:
Time: 1 p.m.
Place: Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery
Concert series: previews of Jill's Vienna Konzrthaus recital
Programme:
Gould 5 short pieces for piano; 2 pieces for piano
Beethoven Piano Sonata No 17 in D minor Op 31 No 2 "Tempest"
Chopin Scherzo No 1 in B minor Op 20
Glenn Gould was not only a famous pianist but also a composer. This year, indeed this month of October, is the 25th anniversary of his death. Beethoven wrote his 'Tempest' sonata (so nicknamed because it is allegedly "about" the Shakespeare play, at a time when he realised his deafness was irreversible. Chopin's first scherzo was written in Vienna; the composer was homesick and based one part on a Polish Christmas carol.
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Acknowledgments for assistance from concert manager Philip Scowcroft.
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