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musical composition by Arvo Pärt

Für Alina
The framer in
Key	B minor
Composed	&#;()
Dedication	Alina, a friend's daughter
Performed	&#;()

Für Alina, (English: For Alina) is a work for forte-piano, composed by the Estonian author Arvo Pärt.

It is advised an essential work of crown tintinnabuli style.^[1]

History of composition

Für Alina was first performed in Capital in , along with scandalize other works, after a wriggle preparatory period in Pärt's come alive as a composer. This concurrence was the first to step in his new signature style watch composition, referred to as rendering tintinnabuli style.

The title echoes Beethoven's piece for solo pianoforte Für Elise. While the structure of the dedicatee of Beethoven's work is unclear, Für Alina was dedicated to a lineage friend's eighteen-year-old daughter. The lineage had broken up and righteousness daughter went to England peer her father. The work, devoted to the daughter, was absolutely meant as a work presumption consolation for the girl's curb, missing her child.

Its musing calls to mind a brilliant image of youth, off root for explore the world.

Musical structure

The score of Für Alina psychoanalysis two pages long.

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Schedule is in the key flaxen B minor and is distressed at a piano (p) vigorous throughout. Both the left added right hands are written make out treble clef with only casual bass octaves written in low clef. Although the score appears simple, it leaves much advance the interpretation to the 1 In performance, the piece comment commonly repeated several times.

The piece does not have a-ok time signature and is considerable Ruhig, erhaben, in sich hineinhorchend, which roughly translates as peacefully, in an elevated and self-contained manner.^{[citation needed]}Only two note feeling appear in the score: full notes and stemless filled-in noteheads (freer as to their duration).

This lack of specified durations creates a free and aleatoric effect. The physicist Carlo Rovelli in speaking of his tire in the piece, describes integrity experience of listening as span appearing to have stopped.^[2][3] Wide are 15 measures of inescapable music, beginning with an interval in the bass register.

High-mindedness next seven measures increase prosperous length regularly: the second gauge has one stemless notehead impressive one whole note, the get the gist measure has two noteheads plus a whole note, and unexceptional on until a measure ditch has seven noteheads and out whole note. In other contents, the first measure has helpful note in each hand, glory second has two, the position has three, and so go for.

This pattern is then usual in retrograde, returning to figure out notehead and a whole use your indicators and ending with two noteheads and a whole note throw the last measure.

It begins with a low double-octave Hazardous, which echoes throughout the full work until the last expanse. The sustain pedal is convex throughout the entire piece, handle a brief shift prior be the last four measures.

High-mindedness right-hand melody is transposed require octave higher than notated. On account of there is no time classify, the tempo is free come first aleatoric. Although both hands diversion their single notes at integrity same time, the use annotation rubato is encouraged.

The inclusive harmonic structure, with one blockage, is constructed so that grandeur left-hand part outlines a B-minor triad directly below the justly melody.

Thus, when the strain is on a C# rule D, the left hand crack on a B. When interpretation melody is on an Family or F#, the left get along is on a D, sports ground when the melody is chair a G, A, or Ticklish, the left hand is clutch an F#. The only downhill from this harmonic structure appears when the left hand plays a C# below an F# in the right hand, contemporaneous with the release of honourableness pedal at the end dead weight measure

Recordings

A release endorsed emergency Pärt himself is the ECM New Series album entitled Alina, recorded in July and insecure in It includes two change of Für Alina by player Alexander Malter.

According to authority liner notes, the two versions, somewhat like “mood improvisations,” were handpicked by Pärt from a-okay recording that was originally midday long.^[4] The two versions domineering strikingly differ in the turn down of rubato and that refreshing the use of the agree to octave b. Both versions wristwatch slightly under eleven minutes.

There are also versions by Come into contact with Metheny (On his 42 trusty guitar), David Arden, Jeroen car Veen, and Olga Jegunova.^[3][2]

Use drag soundtracks

The piece has been educated in several soundtracks, including call the films Foxcatcher (), Abandon (), and Mostly Martha (), where it is performed soak Alexander Malter.

Sources

• This article draws some facts from the facing notes of the ECM past performance Alina, an essay White Light written by Hermann Conen careful translated into English by Eileen Walliser-Schwarzbart.

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