Composer: Paul Hindemith

Ludi Leonum
Studies in Counterpoint, Tonal Organization & Piano Playing
Publisher: Schott
Category: Keyboard & Piano/Vocal/Guitar
Series: Schott
Format: Paperback

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. Facsimile - German - English - French - Spanish - Japenese language. Full color.

Inventory # : 49007848
UPC: 73999818086
ISBN: 3795702895
Width: 9.25"
Length: 12"
Height: 0.426"
Product Weight: 1.3 lbs.
Number of Pages: 63