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  • Hans Abrahamsen

  • Seks stykker (1984)
    (Six Pieces)

  • Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
  • vn, hn, pf
  • 14 min
    • 24th October 2025, Helsinki Music Centre, Helsinki, Finland
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Programme Note


My 6 Pieces for horn, violin and piano was written in 1984 as a commission from the Danish Radio for a concert where Ligeti’s horn trio should receive its Danish premiere played by Danish musicians.

My trio is based on my work ’Studies for Piano’. While I wrote these studies I tried to ’conjure up’ instrumental parts inside the piano movement. When I received the commission for a horn trio I turned to six of the studies and deepened them by ’screening them’ so that their parts and moods appeared in a clearer way. Furthermore I changed the order of the movements so a new unity appeared, beginning with a steadyly hesitating ’Serenade’ in slow-motion followed by the ’Arabesque’ which hardly gets started before it stops. Then ’Blues’, a melancholy melody and ’Marcia Funebre’, like a fossilized picture with a dramatic threatening outburst ending with a quiet but majestic melody in violin and horn, a melody that disappears in the chords of the piano. Before the last movement ’For the Children’ is a large ’Scherzo misterioso’.

Hans Abrahamsen

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Discography

10 Preludes • Six Pieces

10 Preludes • Six Pieces
  • Label
    Dacapo
  • Catalogue Number
    8.226091
  • Ensemble
    Ensemble MidtVest
  • Released
    1st June 2017

Chamber Music

Chamber Music
  • Label
    dacapo
  • Catalogue Number
    8.224155
  • Soloist
    Anne Marie Abildskov, Anne Søe, Preben Iwan, Joakim Dam Thomsen, Anna Klett, Søren Elbo, Jeanette Balland, Signe Haugland
  • Released
    1st September 2001

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