"Chord history" by US-american composer Alex Shapiro is dedicated to Susanne Kessel.
It is part of Vol. 1 of Susanne Kessel's global composition project
"250 piano pieces for Beethoven"
Susanne Kessel invited 250 composers from all over the world to write new piano pieces for Beethoven's 250th anniversary in the year 2020. All pieces refer to Beethoven's music and/or his life.
Susanne Kessel played the world premieres of all the piano pieces in Beethoven's birthtown Bonn. And further performances also in other cities and countries.
All pieces are published within a high quality sheet music edition by EDITIONS MUSICA FERRUM / London.
You can find the sheet music of this piece in Vol. 1 of the project's edition.
Alex Shapiro about her piano piece “Chord history”
“My friend, the superb pianist Susanne Kessel, shares something significant with one of our mutual muses, Ludwig van Beethoven: they both hail from Bonn, Germany. So what better way to compose an homage to this giant, than to ask the devoted pianist what some of her favourite Beethoven piano chords might be? I knew my own answer: the iconic, imposing, foreboding, C minor start to Sonata No. 8, Op. 13, the “Pathéthique.” My teenage hands passionately played each phrase thousands of times, and while poor Ludwig might have been rolling over in his grave (there’s a good reason I chose to compose rather than perform), the influence of his music in my life has been monumental. That chord, along with Susanne’s fine suggestions, are planted throughout this little offering. And thus, Beethoven, Kessel, and Shapiro have become bound for a brief and touching moment in this CHORD HISTORY.”
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