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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
'Tonality, Clarity, Strength': Gesture, form, and Nordic Identity in Carl Nielsen's Piano Music
Beteiligte:
Grimley, Daniel M.
Erschienen:
Oxford University Press, 2005
Erschienen in:Music & Letters
Sprache:
Englisch
ISSN:
0027-4224;
1477-4631
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<p>Identifying elements of a Nordic subjectivity in the music of Carl Nielsen is a complex exercise. As Naomi Cumming has observed, we construct musical subjectivity in multiple ways, some of which we perceive as a 'composer's voice'. But musical identity is properly a tension between compositional process, reception, and historical context. Carl Nielsen's piano music has been less widely acknowledged outside Denmark than his symphonies, but offers a compelling case study in the formation of musical subjectivity. His piano works employ a diverse range of different compositional strategies, from stylized neo-Baroque textures to angular modernist dissonance and the carnivalesque juxtaposition of different musical characters or voices. The critical reception of his piano music reveals interesting trends in the construction of a Danish musical style. This essay presents a general survey of his major piano works, from the Symphonic Suite to the posthumous Three Piano Pieces, and seeks to place them in their European historical context.</p>