for | Piano |
Musical Editions | Music score |
Item no. | 490997 |
Author / Composer | Alban Berg, Marvin Wolfthal |
Level | difficult |
Scope | 36 pages |
Duration | 14 minutes |
Year of origin | 2008 |
Release year | 2008 |
Publisher / Producer | Universal Edition |
Producer No. | UE 33970 |
ISBN | 9783702466138 |
ISMN | 9790008079702 |
UPC | 0803452063315 |
Pianist and composer Marvin Wolfthal has adapted the music of Alban Berg's opera Lulu for a piano fantasy, working his way through Acts I, II, and the Suite to find fragments that seemed convincing and effective on the piano. Rather than a formal overview of the opera itself, the fantasy became a portrait of one character, Alwa, who plays a composer within the story. As the arranger hopes, this adaptation will draw attention to the larger work as a whole.
Winner of International Piano Magazine's 2009 award for best new work for piano.