Diabelli Variation "Rock it, Rudi!" for Piano

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Composition commissioned by Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, Brucknerhaus Linz, Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical Madrid, Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Lisbon, National Center for the Performing Arts Beijing, Palau de la Música Catalana Barcelona, ​​Philharmonie de Paris, Stars of the White Nights Festival St. Petersburg, Foundation Piano Festival Ruhr and Tonhalle Society Zurich, funded by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

The work, which is shaped by seconds, begins with loud sighs. After soft, sustained chords, the dynamics and rhythms increase to a climax, again and again characterized by chains of sighs, before the pain subsides and the moaning becomes quieter again.

Performance duration (approx): 3'00

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Instrumentation

• Part 1: Piano