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Fantasia No 10 for double keyboard piano

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dc.contributor.authorComposer: Larry Sitsky
dc.contributor.authorSitsky, Larry
dc.contributor.editorGrafton-Greene, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-30T22:31:38Z
dc.date.available2024-10-30T22:31:38Z
dc.description.abstract"A Bechstein-Moor double-keyboard (Duplex-Coupler) grand piano was brought to Australia by Winifred Burston in the 1930s. The 1921 invention by Emanuel Moor of a piano with a second keyboard sounding an octave higher, is a fascinating story, as is Burston's championing of the instrument. The Fantasia was composed in response to a request from pianist Alistair Noble for a concert-piece to mark Alan Jenkins' retirement from the Canberra School of Music in 1992. Jenkins and Sitsky were both pupils of Burston; Noble was not only a student of Alan Jenkins, but had also rescued the piano - believed to be the only example in Australia - from use in pianotuning practice. Like Sitskys other Fantasias, the work is conceived in a free-flowing, quasi improvisational style which exploits the particular features of the double-keyboard instrument. It is not possible to play the piece on a coventional piano." -- Peter Campbell
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dc.identifierCSM21T2
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1885/733722856
dc.provenanceDigitised by the Australian National University in 2024.
dc.publisherCanberra School of Music, Australian National University
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAnthology of Australian Music ; Series 2
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAnthology of Australian Music on Disc (21)
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCSM 21: Sitsky at Sixty - Music of Larry Sitsky for his sixtieth birthday
dc.rights© 1994 Canberra School of Music.
dc.subjectClassical Music
dc.titleFantasia No 10 for double keyboard piano
dc.typeSound recording
local.description.notesProduced by: Larry Sitsky ; Recorded by: Niven Stines, John Davies & Michael Grafton-Greene; Recorded at: Canberra School of Music ; Recording date: 25 September 1994

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