Ludus tonalis. Faksimile-Ausgabe eines von Paul Hindemith kolorierten Exemplares aus dem Jahre 1950 (Facsimile)
for | Piano |
Musical Editions | Music score |
Item no. | 157289 |
Author / Composer | Paul Hindemith |
Editor | Giselher Schubert |
Level | advanced |
Scope | 60 pages; 23.5 × 31 cm |
Duration | 60 minutes |
Year of origin | 1943 |
Release year | 1994 |
Publisher / Producer | Schott Music |
Producer No. | ED 8200 |
ISBN | 9783795702892 |
ISMN | 9790001083928 |
The cycle of fugues is introduced and concluded by a Praeludium and Postludium, the second formed by turning the Praeludium upside down and reading it backwards. In solving technical problems he posed himself, Hindemith created not a dry exercise but a work of considerable imagination. Intellectual achievement and sheer delight in playing are shown not to be mutually exclusive. The Ludus is a graphc example of the composer's delight in the fantastic, offered to his wife, born under the sign of Leo, as a birthday present. He illustrated the work with colored pencil, among other things drawing a lion for each entry of the subject of the fugues and for each of the twelve a different kind of lion, according to the character of the music, originally published in a limited edition but providing an instructive formal analysis of the music.