Elliott Carter

Composer's note:Fascination with Italian music, literature, and visual arts has grown ever since my mother took me to Rome in around 1924. This song-cycle is a small gesture of gratitude to Italian cu...

Inspired by 1930s harpist Carlos Salzedo, a member of the small group of modernists who surrounded Varese and Ives. Salzedo's unusual developments in harp technique are explored throughout Mosaic, a w...

90 + für Klavier ist auf neunzig kurzen, akzentuierten Noten aufgebaut, die in einem langsamen gleichmässigen Takt gespielt werden. Im Rahmen dieser Noten verändert sich der Charakter des Stücks laufe...

Note du compositeur:Ces Two Diversions pour piano portent sur un contraste croissant entre des idées musicales simultanées. La première Diversion présente une ligne de notes couplées, des intervalles...

'Retrouvailles' pour piano, commandé par le Royal Festival Hall de Londres, a été écrit pour célébrer le soixante-quinzième anniversaire de mon ami, Pierre Boulez, le 26 mars 2000. La partition retour...

The Pocahontas Ballet Suite is one of Carter's early works, and reflects the neo-classical influences of studies with Walter Piston and Gustav Holst at Harvard (1926-32) and with Stravinskian disciple...

For SATB Choir A Cappella.

Three settings of titles from The Collected Poems of Robert Frost, composed by Carter in 1942. Titles include: Dust of Snow / The Rose Family / The Line-Gang. Also available in a version orchestrated...

Composed for the Harvard Glee Club in 1936, this work is for TB Chorus (Male Voices) and Piano Duet.

Night Fantasies is a piano piece of continuously changing moods, suggesting the fleeting thoughts and feelings that pass through the mind during a period of wakefulness at night. The quiet, nocturnal...