Encores

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  • Preface
    
    In this compilation I have brought together and arranged pieces, that I many times have played as encores for marimba in my concerts during the years, with shorter beautiful pieces that always had a special place in my heart. The common theme for these three miniature master pieces is that I find them also suiting marvellously for marimba and they span from classical piano pieces over swedish folk music to popular music. They are not virtuoso in a normal sense but rather musically warm hearted pieces. I hope that they will find their way too many other marimba players as well and that you will enjoy them very much.

    
    Index
    Gnossienne No. 4 by Erik SATIE
    Emigrant Song, old swedish folksong
    Invierno Porteño by Astor Piazzolla
    
    

    Copyright
    INVIERNO PORTEÑO  
    Musik: Astor Piazzolla
    © Editorial Lagos / Warner Chappell Music Argentina
    Tryckt med tillstånd av Notfabriken Music Publishing AB/Faber Music Ltd.

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  • Marimba

• About the composer +

  • Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (March 11, 1921 – July 4, 1992) was an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. A virtuoso bandoneonist, he regularly performed his own compositions with a variety of ensembles. 
    
    In 1992, American music critic Stephen Holden described Piazzolla as "the world's foremost composer of tango music".
    
    

    Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist. Satie was an influential artist in the late 19th- and early 20th-century Parisian avant-garde. His work was a precursor to later artistic movements such as minimalism, repetitive music, and the Theatre of the Absurd.

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  • Front Cover graphics and layout: Ronni Kot Wenzell
    Photo: © Artave
    Engraving: Johan Svitzer
    Printed in Copenhagen, Denmark
    Copyright © Edition SVITZER
    www.editionsvitzer.com

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